One of the reasons that the costliest education system in human history is the costliest education system in human history is because virtually everyone has to go to college.
But before you can get into college, you have to pass the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs). The purpose of these tests is to get as many people into college as possible.
What ho! Some of the contents of the 2021 SATs, being prepared just now, have been leaked to me! Here’s a sample from the Science SAT.
Identify this North American animal.
A) Japanese giant salamander B) Daddy long-legs C) Bighorn sheep D) Submarine sandwich E) Hey, wait a minute! That’s me!
The correct answer, of course, is E, “That’s me!” This is what the colleges are looking for. This is the engine that will drive America through the 21st century. At least that’s what they say, and it sounds wise.
Someday everyone in America will be in college for as long as they live. At least that seems to be the plan.
Now, I must take exception. I have seen bighorn sheep in the wild and they are much more noble than the progenitors of many of today’s ideas. 🙂
Hmmm … seems to me we’re dabbling in a little transspeciesphobia here. What if this animal (and do we really know it’s an animal?) actually identifies as a salamander or daddy-long-legs or submarine sandwich — or something else entirely? Or, for that matter, what if it’s speciesfluid and doesn’t want to be locked into a species identity? There should be a “none of the above” option, an “all of the above” option, a “more than the above” option, a “depends on how xe feels at the moment” option, and so on. (Note the fluid pronoun there.) In fact, there should be a space to write in a preference that isn’t assigned by the hegemonic test writers.
But that’s okay. By 2121, students may not be able to read anyway.
I’ve been wonder how anyone can get to be so loopy as to believe he’s a member of another species. But then I don’t exactly dig transgender. It still looks like a coercive campaign to have insanity declared sane.
“ . . . looks like a coercive campaign to have insanity declared sane.”
I think that is precisely the point.
The liberal (Mis)identity politics is getting really irrational…