“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.”

–Time Machine

In John Derbyshire’s latest transmission he has some fun with the latest ructions on the college campus, particularly the screeching and whining by the undergrads at Yale. My bet is most people living in normalville see this stuff on the news and roll their eyes, writing it off as the same old bullshit we get from the modern college.

There’s a lot of truth to it, but the college campus is a good place to look if you want to see the future. The West is fully into the Managerial State now and the modern college is where future members of the managerial elite are trained. The Alphas and Betas go off to private colleges, while the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are sent off to state schools to learn how to serve the higher ranking castes.

If you look at the modern corporation, you will see they arrange things to resemble a college campus. They even use the word “campus” as in Corporate Campus. Government has gotten into the act as well. I was recently at a Federal facility and they used the word campus. I’ll withhold the name to avoid being sent to the gallows. Like a corporate campus of college campus, this government facility was built as a closed loop.

What I mean by that is the little villages are supposed to be where you spend all of your time. Modern colleges located in urban areas have spent billions so that students never have to leave campus and mix it up with the locals. Columbia, Yale, Boston College and NYU are examples that come to mind. They have installed sufficient housing and pressure students to live in the campus housing, rather than local apartments. On campus, food and entertainment facilities resemble what you see at five star resorts.

This is one of the bars on the Missouri campus, for example:

Here’s Gryphon’s Pub at Yale:

Of course, here is the Apple campus:

What we’re seeing here is the slow evolution of private spaces for the managerial elite. The young punks making a nuisance of themselves at Yale or Amherst are simply responding to what they have always known. They grew up in secluded neighborhoods, went to private schools and then the college campus. They have always been in safe places so the limited exposure to the real world strikes them as bitter winter wind.

Further down the hierarchy, many of the kids at state school have popped out of comfortable suburbs form parents in management positions. Maybe they teach in the schools or work in government. They are not rich, but they are certainly not poor. The ones making a nuisance of themselves are often examples of regression to the mean. Dad was smart enough to make it into the managerial elite, but junior was just too average so he ended up at the state college.

This is not uncommon. We think of the rich as bribing the private schools to take their kids like the Kennedy clan did in the old days, but that’s not the case these days. I have a friend who was smart enough to get into a great private college and make a nice career for himself. His oldest is not so bright so he sent him to state school. He decided he’d save the money, figuring his kid was not worth the investment. This is more common than you would think.

Even so, the college campus still has normal American strivers hoping to lever high test scores into a place in the higher classes. They bring with them their normal habits and customs, which is what so offends these hothouse flowers we see on our televisions. It’s like a jalopy full of West Virginia hillbillies showing up at the croquet party. It’s just wrong!

What we are seeing on the American campus is the slow separation of the managerial class from the rest of us. It’s the opposite of what Wells imagined. The physically strong will not cultivate the meek as a source of food. The soft will set themselves apart and rule over the Morlocks from the safety of their compounds. Inside the walls, a discouraging word will cause everyone to start crying. Outside the walls life will be nasty, brutish and short.

That’s the plan, anyway. That’s why the people in charge are so indifferent to the migrant invasions and the bloodshed that comes with it. They think it works to their advantage for now as it gives the social engineers work and practice. The world they imagine will not have countries, just administrative areas. The people in charge will live apart and therefore have no reason to worry about what happens.

The main flaw in the plan is where we started. Those Muslim lunatics who shot up Paris feared nothing from the locals. They are figuring out that they have no reason to fear the people in charge, if they can get close to them. At some point, the people in charge will figure this out too and the math changes. As long as there are rough men willing to commit violence for his kind, the Eloi can never rule alone or maybe even rule at all.