Educated to Death |
Left-wing lunatics are trending from the educated class.
If one knew nothing about the Holocaust and was told about the mass murder of millions of Jews and others, he might ask who did it. Let’s say that we won’t tell him and ask who he thinks was behind it. We would not be surprised if he concluded that the killers were a bunch of uneducated thugs, like those in South Africa who sing about killing whites in the country. None of them seems to be a brain surgeon. Our subject might be surprised to learn that the Nazis were heavily associated with German intellectuals, universities, and the social elite. This model of academe in the name of violence and destruction apparently is alive and well in the West.
Whereas Lee Harvey Oswald had a quite difficult educational experience prior to his enlisting in the U.S. Marines at age 17, Cole Thomas Allen is the epitome of American educational success. He has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech. Think about that. Caltech is one of the top engineering schools in the country, on par with MIT. He didn’t stop there, but also took a Master's degree from Cal State in Computer Science. He might be the most highly credentialed attempted assassin in history. He was a teacher and was even awarded “Teacher of the Month” in Torrance, California. While no rational person would expect 100 percent educational success from U.S. institutions of higher education, how did this highly-trained, technologically sophisticated person become an attempted murderer of the president of the United States and his immediate associates? The short answer is that education today—even in the sciences and engineering—has an ideological component against what we used to consider to be American values.
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