Yes indeed the "change agents" have socially engineered us into this mess.

Submitted by Homefront (Australia), May 7, 2008 at 21:38

Duliece,

I agree with you totally. Society has been pregnant with the new cohort of neomarxist nonsense since the 1960-70s and now we are about to reap the fruit of the seeds the socialists planted in our education system. Broadly speaking these are the death of free and rational thought and the collapse of the western world.

The latter is almost inevitable and perhaps the only thing that will be able to rid us of this communalistic nonsense of Multiculturalist cultural relativism. In fact many in the left know they are pushing us towards a collapse - many of the older theorists wanted to bring such a collapse about as a necessary step to fashion their utopia.

I think that a more likely result of left wing bottom feeder dominance is a dystopia like the one fleshed out in the novel "The Hatred of Angels" or Mark Steyn's "America Alone". All of the ways to avoid the looming apocalypse like recapturing our institutions (suggested by Steyn) are almost impossible to achieve.

Universities and Schools are left wing ideological fortresses - they're expecting an assault. The other course of action that is equally implausible is establishing parallel institutions and fortifying them against the left. Who would we staff them with? Taking journalism as an example there are only around 4 neoconservative journalists in the entire of Australia (Andrew Bolt and Janet Albrechtson are the only two that come immediately to mind).

It is almost impossible to see how we can recover from our present predicament. We have an entire generation who are incapable of critical thought and will only transmit their ignorance to the next generation (to the extent that they are prepared to even breed). In Australia the dominant educational paradigm which has driven this catastrophe is called "student centred learning" which is essentially designed around elevating the bottom rung students at the expense of almost everyone else. It is an exemplar of the maxim "a system designed around the worst qualities of humankind will tend to reflect them".

A female University Academic who migrated to Australia from China and lived under Mao's regime said that she thought neoconservative assertions that the educational system in Australia was Maoist were unfair to Mao. The basis for her assertion was the fact that she found that most of the Australian undergraduates she had to deal with were both ideologically indoctrinated and lacking the most basic academic skills. At least the idealogues churned out of the Maoist system had basic Academic skills. The best students academically she lamented were often the most closed minded - apparently this is the price of an A in the Australian high school system.

The end product is a cohort of unshakable, unthinking Rudd supporters in Australia. And in America perhaps an Obama presidency. Ever wonder why the Republicans look like they're getting older every year? It's because the University and School system in America years ago discontinued the conservative product line.

Homefront.

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