State of Thursday: THE 'LOST GENERATION' CONUNDRUM
We can’t take half measures. We need to obliterate the factories producing mediocre elites. We need to replace them entirely.
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Time for some medicine, and this kind won’t go down easy.
THE ‘LOST GENERATION’ CONUNDRUM
If we Americans emerge from all this intact and regain our health as a society, I’m convinced historians will look back at the first quarter of this century and call its product the “lost generation.”
Unfortunately, the obstacles we’ve set before us are so high and so deep that the only way is through. The casualties will mount. They will in fact be astronomical. Nevertheless, it is highly important that once we chart the course, we take it.
Let’s start with the recent UCSD report on education. In short, one of the most prestigious university systems in California (and so, the world) has been matriculating students who don’t know basic math. They can’t divide a fraction in two. They don’t know how “to start” a word problem. They cannot read beyond a middle school level, never mind read critically.
In the process of reporting these deficiencies out, there was another stunning discovery: Many of these students had 4.0 grade point averages in public school.
How did we get here? The hard left “equity” movement that captured education at every level. In its (almost always hyper-racial) focus on equivalent academic outcomes, it progressively and then seemingly everywhere all at once managed to remove basic tenets of the educational process. Literacy, advanced literacy. Basic civics. Basic math. Advanced math.
It wasn’t just an assault on merit, as most of us were apt to point out at first. It was a deliberate removal of basic intellectual processes and obstacles one must navigate to achieve milestones and credentials. Instead, they just got the credentials.
Again, the new way of equity has infected every level. From elementary school all the way up to grad school. There are countless PhD dissertations that basically amount to incoherent nonsense.
As onlookers have pointed out about the NYC mayoral race, it wasn’t the working-class poor who put that man in office. It was the so-called “elite.” The first generation in American history of highly credentialed people who are downwardly mobile in the economy.
Meaning: They will end up one or multiple economic quintiles below their parents.
Like so much of our linguistics lately, “elite” too is actually another inversion. These people are not “elite.” Their degrees might have earned them that moniker, and we conservatives might be willing to use it pejoratively, but make no mistake, they’re not actually elite. They are mediocre.
The same people who foisted equity on us and carved out a vacancy where classical competency once stood have filled that vacancy with a host of truly damaging delusions. Yes, the most distilled of these is that men can be women. Beyond that, however, an almost entirely imagined worldview dominates the mediocre elites.
Land acknowledgments are an outgrowth of it, as if all sovereign land in human history wasn’t first stolen and held. And the kicker is, American land can be stolen too, and I assure you, the interlocutors won’t give a damn about maintaining our customs. They won’t even erect a museum in our honor.
No, the kids are not alright. They are far from alright. This, too, is a product of the vile equity movement, if even its soldiers and managers cannot comprehend it. What we have now are tens of millions of young adults and middle-aged adults who are utterly incompetent, mentally unwell, mired in debt they’ll never pay off, who detest their birth country in their very DNA.
In other words, the Marxists among us have built an army of lifelong, highly radical dependents. Just like kids who are transed will be dependent on various medical interventions until the day they die, America is stuck with what amounts to a permanent class of annoying, non-productive, retardified, violent adults who will never cut their hair, never clean themselves up, and never move out of the imaginary basement.
America must do two things at this point. Must, as in, non-optional.
First, it must manage these individuals until they all eventually die. They’ll have political power in some places. It must be identified and quarantined until the gas runs out. Some cities, like New York and Seattle, have become and essentially will remain asylums until the fever finally breaks.
We must keep it from metastasizing, which brings me to the second thing: America must stop making these people.
That will require an aggression in policymaking like we haven’t seen since privately owned industrial factories were converted en masse during World War II to produce war machines.
And I’m sorry to report, but I haven’t seen the kind of liveliness I’d expect out of Trump World to solve this problem. They’ve made some movements, but they’re at about a 2 when we need 12/10.
Declare education a national emergency. Nuke federal financial aid entirely. Reposition it to fund STEM, health care fields, finance and business. Divert the rest to vocational schools. We need more builders.
Put private loan lenders and universities on notice. Defaults are yours to cover. Call it halfsies. We’re not bailing you out. The public, plumbers and bricklayers, are not bailing the elite mediocres out.
Turn basically the entirety of the conservative movement toward education of young people. We have no choice. Education is the one and only policy avenue in the US that is almost entirely Democrat-run, soup to nuts. Therefore, all of the New Right needs to take it on.
Wage an all-out war on teachers unions and lefty education establishments. Abolish tenure in public education. Blitz them. Take them apart. They need to be dismantled. Punching a hole in them provides a pathway for sober minds and competent people to reinstall a classical system of merit and scholastic achievement.
It’ll take brass balls, because we’ll be putting hundreds of thousands of people out of work. Half of all teachers and administrators, if not more, will be out on their asses. Perhaps they can gain employment in the fields or cleaning hotel rooms, where they can spend the rest of their time in menial labor, considering what it is they’ve done. The kids they’ve produced too will be casualties, locked in forever mediocrity, lifelong patients and dependents. So be it. Treat them like the socioeconomic lepers they are.
We can’t take half measures. We need to obliterate the factories producing mediocre elites. We need to replace them entirely.
Otherwise we risk the lost generation turning into lost generations.
WHAT I’M READING
The latest from the great John Loftus.
Pope Leo Wants To Make Hollywood Great Again
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We need to intervene. We need to stop making these people.
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Another obvious call: Stop all immigration. All of it.
Muslims Surround Conservative Protesters Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ In Dearborn, Michigan
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Cory Mills isn’t worth it, guys.
Republicans Keep Democrat Crazies Off The Hook — To Protect Their Own Swamp Creature
WHAT I’M WATCHING
The Daily Caller’s newest documentary Charlie Kirk: American Martyr is out now. Click below to watch, you don’t want to miss it.
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