Ah, the Great Pandemic! Seems like only yesterday, doesn’t it?
And how did our institutions of Higher Learning respond to the crisis?
By wasting our money, of course.
Here’s What the Universities Are Doing with Their Bailout Money
Yowsah, yowsah! You can’t spend enough money on Diversity–never mind spending too damned much! Our universities went into an orgy of insane spending on ridiculous “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion” initiatives –money that would be more productively, sanely, and profitably spent on lottery tickets.
It’s scandalous that Congress has done so little to project us. And shameful that we’ve done so little to protect ourselves. We could at least stop going to universities to get degrees in Nothing Studies.
If we cut off their money supply they can’t hurt us anymore.
It seems to be a knee jerk reaction. Everyone should have equal opportunity, but not everyone is going to have the same results. There are fields in which all the education in the world would do me no good and other fields where I would excel. Anything aviation I’d do well, for example, but while I’ve worked in tech for a long time, there are some tech fields in which I do poorly, and I doubt that I would ever do well in them.
So it is for various diversity programs. Some individuals will do better than others and that is not a characteristic of any particular lineage, although there might be cultural influences. For example, someone from an agricultural region might be better prepared for certain technical subjects because they grew up around farm equipment, etc.
How’s about I fly the plane while you write the fantasy novels?
Let me update my life insurance. 🙂
Exactly. I have the strong contention that not everybody is well suited to being a pilot. I’m not saying this to belittle anyone, but the focus required to fly safely is not common to all people.
Let me approach it from the flip side. I am not a graphic artist. With age and experience, I’ve developed the ability to make simple drawings, but I’m not inclined towards graphic arts, and it will never be easy for me to do. It is an uncomfortable thing for me to do.
One of the things I love about flying is that when the plane takes to the air, and you have the sensation of the ground dropping away from under the plane, every care on the ground remains on the ground and I am entirely “in the zone”, and totally focused on flying. I could handle the radio calls, and keep track of the technical challenges, and love doing it. But it requires a strong ability to filter out the frivolous and not be distracted by social interruptions. In fact, in Part 121 (airline) operations there is a “sterile cockpit” rule which prohibits conversation about anything not related to flight under 10,000 feet.
So flying is a perfect example of a skill to which all people are not well suited. Many crashes cause by pilot error, are caused by lapses in judgment or distraction. Not everyone can keep their priorities straight enough to safely be a pilot. There are also differing levels of coordination and manual dexterity which play into it as well.
Where in our U.S. Constitution does the federal gov’t have the authority to give money to educational institutions? – it doesn’t.
It needs to stop.