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发帖数: 6571 | 1 October 11, 2016
The Political ‘Education Divide’ and Me
By Christopher Chantrill
All of a sudden the experts are bellowing that the educated are voting for
Clinton and the uneducated are voting for Trump. Here’s Tim Alberta in
National Review, and here is David Runciman in The Guardian to tell you all
about it. Call it the “education divide.”
But where does that leave me? You see, I think of myself as educated, but I
am going to vote for Trump. So what’s my problem?
Of course, my terminal degree is a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from
England, with no courses in the liberal arts. I didn’t really get an
education until I started reading as an adult. That makes me an autodidact,
and you know what they are like. The only time I’ve been in a university
since the 1960s is to take one class each in Aristotle, Plato, Kant, and
Hume. And I took those classes so that I would know the official liberal
line on those ancients.
Actually, it makes complete sense that the educated would be voting liberal.
That is the whole point of the ruling class’s program of cradle to Ph.D.
education. The idea is to form the minds of the little darlings, as husbands
liked to form the minds of their wives and daughters in Austen and Trollope
novels.
Back in the old days, universities were seminaries founded by churches for
the training of ministers who would then go out and preach orthodoxy to the
unwashed. Today the universities are secular seminaries for the training of
activists that can then go out and practice peaceful protest on the victims.
So nothing has changed.
Any real educated liberal would admit, of course, that education is fascism.
Education comes from the Latin ducare, to lead. From thence is the noun Dux
, leader, the English Duke, and the Italian, Il Duce. And you know what that
means: education is fascism, straight up. Now you know why so many
artistical liberals like to wear black shirts.
But I think I understand why I, a self-educated white man born in India and
raised in England, don’t go with the educated herd on politics. As they
sang in South Pacific,
You’ve got to be taught
To hate and to fear
the bitter clingers and the deplorables. It takes a lot of time and a lot of
money -- "From year to year… In your dear little ear" -- as Lt. Cable sang
, to develop the proper amount of hate and fear for the racists, sexists,
and bigots of the world, and I never got the full treatment.
When a lefty prof. told me I’d taken a university place from a deserving
working-class kid, I told myself he could take it where the sun don’t shine
. Well, I would have done, except I didn’t yet know how to talk like an
American movie gangster. That was part of my adult education.
But there is nothing remarkable about all this hating and fearing. Samuel P.
Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations puts it quite prosaically.
People use politics not just to advance their interests but also to
define their identity. We know who we are only when we know who we are not
and often only when we know who we are against.
That is what all the yelling and screaming is about. That is what racists,
sexists, homophobes are about. That is what SJWs shutting down offensive
speech is about.
Back in the original eruption of the left, what I call the Class of 1848,
the left defined its identity by championing the cause of the workers in the
industrial revolution. And they defined themselves against the bourgeoisie
who they appointed into the vacant exploiter/oppressor role formerly
occupied by the aristocracy.
But the bourgeoisie was perfectly happy to redress the grievances of the
workers -- what softies! -- so the Class of 1848 needed new evildoers
against which to define itself.
Today the left defines itself as “the educated,” which seems to include
the men that used to be called the Robber Barons -- your Tom Steyers, your
Bill Gateses, your Sergey Brins, even your Jeff Bezoses, and certainly your
Carlos Slims, but not your evil Koch Brothers -- and it defines itself
against the uneducated. That is why Hillary Clinton defines herself against
the deplorables and the irredeemables.
Obviously, if you align yourself with the left you get a get-out-of-jail-
free card to call yourself “educated.” You go to your secular seminary,
you get a thorough training in activism and victimism, and then you get sent
forth into the world to proselytize your faith in big government and
victimism in a meaningful life of activism and peaceful protest.
Somehow, I just can’t get with the program, whatever the mean girls say.
Maybe it’s because I’m interested in ideas, not what people think of me.
There must be something wrong with me.
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发帖数: 692 | | a**e
发帖数: 8800 | 4 这里有一个关键没有提：
大学入学现在就是一个liberal的初级筛选。
凡是不按照liberal模式过高中生活的，不是按liberal的观点写申请的，录取机会会低
于同等成绩的liberal学生。
无论公立还是私立都是这样。
这样的结果就是大学生中liberal占绝对多数比例。刚毕业的学生中liberal占绝对多数
比例。直到生活和社会把他们中靠工作生活的人改变成anti-liberal.
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【在 g********2 的大作中提到】
: October 11, 2016
: The Political ‘Education Divide’ and Me
: By Christopher Chantrill
: All of a sudden the experts are bellowing that the educated are voting for
: Clinton and the uneducated are voting for Trump. Here’s Tim Alberta in
: National Review, and here is David Runciman in The Guardian to tell you all
: about it. Call it the “education divide.”
: But where does that leave me? You see, I think of myself as educated, but I
: am going to vote for Trump. So what’s my problem?
: Of course, my terminal degree is a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from
| i******0
发帖数: 609 | 5 Very insightful point.
【在 a**e 的大作中提到】
: 这里有一个关键没有提：
: 大学入学现在就是一个liberal的初级筛选。
: 凡是不按照liberal模式过高中生活的，不是按liberal的观点写申请的，录取机会会低
: 于同等成绩的liberal学生。
: 无论公立还是私立都是这样。
: 这样的结果就是大学生中liberal占绝对多数比例。刚毕业的学生中liberal占绝对多数
: 比例。直到生活和社会把他们中靠工作生活的人改变成anti-liberal.
:
: all
: I
| L**i
发帖数: 22365 | 6 因为还体会不到生活的残酷
或者是还不肯为了几斗米折腰，更愿意为了崇高理想奋斗
其实哪个国家的年轻人都会经历这个时期 | f*******e
发帖数: 3433 | 7 正常，我年轻时也liberal, 年龄越大阅历多了反而变得保守了。
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【在 g********2 的大作中提到】
: October 11, 2016
: The Political ‘Education Divide’ and Me
: By Christopher Chantrill
: All of a sudden the experts are bellowing that the educated are voting for
: Clinton and the uneducated are voting for Trump. Here’s Tim Alberta in
: National Review, and here is David Runciman in The Guardian to tell you all
: about it. Call it the “education divide.”
: But where does that leave me? You see, I think of myself as educated, but I
: am going to vote for Trump. So what’s my problem?
: Of course, my terminal degree is a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from
| b*********0
发帖数: 1441 | 8 good point.
【在 a**e 的大作中提到】
: 这里有一个关键没有提：
: 大学入学现在就是一个liberal的初级筛选。
: 凡是不按照liberal模式过高中生活的，不是按liberal的观点写申请的，录取机会会低
: 于同等成绩的liberal学生。
: 无论公立还是私立都是这样。
: 这样的结果就是大学生中liberal占绝对多数比例。刚毕业的学生中liberal占绝对多数
: 比例。直到生活和社会把他们中靠工作生活的人改变成anti-liberal.
:
: all
: I
| g********2
发帖数: 6571 | 9 现在这种左，已经左得邪乎了，不是像以前，反战啊什么的，左左还行。
【在 l*****o 的大作中提到】
: 年轻不左和年纪大了不右都是很悲哀的事情。
| e****l
发帖数: 3319 | 10 conservative是衰老的象征，老得无法接受新生事物，老得活在自己的习惯和经验里。
只有行将就木的人才会选择当conservative。 | E*****5
发帖数: 1068 | 11 对的，然后大学里继续被Liberal教授洗脑。藤校的Liberal教授还来得多。
【在 a**e 的大作中提到】
: 这里有一个关键没有提：
: 大学入学现在就是一个liberal的初级筛选。
: 凡是不按照liberal模式过高中生活的，不是按liberal的观点写申请的，录取机会会低
: 于同等成绩的liberal学生。
: 无论公立还是私立都是这样。
: 这样的结果就是大学生中liberal占绝对多数比例。刚毕业的学生中liberal占绝对多数
: 比例。直到生活和社会把他们中靠工作生活的人改变成anti-liberal.
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