Sunday Thoughts December 17, 2023

Having spent Saturday preparing the new house for painting, I decided to take the easy way out this week and talk about the gays. No, not those gays or even "gays" but the life and times of Harvard president Claudine Gay. I found her most recent resume, which is about ten years old. The great scrubbing of her life from the internet is underway, so getting any of this stuff will soon be impossible. Everyone is focusing on her alleged antisemitism, plagiarism, and immunity from these claims due to her intersectional score. All of those are worth attention, especially the last item, as it blows a giant hole in the left-wing project. Everyone in this sort of politics assumes they are at the top of the progressive stack. They tell themselves that they are all equal as they exact revenge on whitey, but that is not the case. There is another angle here. Harvard and the people running it is where the next generation of managerial elites are decanted. The job of Mx. Gay and the rest are to get these students ready to assume positions in the elite, so they can run the leviathan, which includes the administrative class and Dirt People. Some portion of these novices will need to know how to run things and keep the system going. When you look at the resume of Mx. Gay, or the CV’s of any of these people, what you find is a life lived in avoidance of the world outside the campus. Mx. Gay would end up living under a bridge if she were barred from the college campus. She has no skills that translate to anywhere outside the academy. Therefore, she has not skills, experience, or wisdom to pass along to the students Harvard is training to run the world. What is happening to our elite colleges is a variation of the late Jerry Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracies, which goes like this. "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely." Our elite colleges are run by people who only care about keeping the flow of money coming so they can maintain an alternative reality.  To do that they sell credentials that used to be tied to merit, but now they act like the Nobles of the Robe, raising money for their weird court by selling diplomas, which are something like the Letters of Patent sold by the French aristocracy to raise funds.

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