A word to left-wing students

If you apply these ideas to American politics I believe that the idea that a voter has to pick one side and stick with it is absurd at best, incredibly harmful at worst. Both of the major parties have some great ideas and some mind-bending bad ideas. Basing your self-identity on which side you vote for just makes you part of a herd only useful for the slaughterhouse, and in the same manner that you don’t care about the political ideals of the cow from which the steak you’re about to eat held before it became part of your dinner, the increasingly smaller group of people in America who wield the real power don’t care about your life as long as you vote for the person that gives them what they want. Distract the cows with a little bit of hay right before they take a lethal blast of pressured air to the brain, distract the voters with abortion and gay marriage and gun control before their livelihoods are shipped off to Beijing or Mumbai. Same f~~~ing thing.

However, that was right after the upheavals of the 1960s and the early days of feminism.  By the early 1980s, when I returned there to finish my first master’s degree, I already noticed a difference.  There wasn’t any hostile opposition as such, but I had the sense that one had to be careful about which opinions one admitted to having.

I started my second master’s degree in the early 1990s and, by then, the place had become infested with political correctness and feminist malarkey.  The generation after me had grown up and started university, and many of its members had developed an intolerance for ideas they didn’t agree with.  However, as a grad student, I was so busy working at my studies that I didn’t pay much attention to it, particularly since I stopped reading the university student newspaper.  That rag had become glorified fishwrap and a vehicle for such closed-mindedness.

I also noticed that there was an environment of conformity and that the cheeky rebelliousness that I knew as an undergrad had long disappeared.  I guess that it had been bred out of the current crop of undergrads, though it could also be attributed to large parts of the campus looking more like a major city shopping centre than an institution of higher learning.  With that herd mentality, plus whatever’s available via the Internet, it’s easy to see how students could easily become a mob.  They don’t seem to want to think for themselves any more.