Xirl Science

In my youth when we hunted the mammoth and sabretooth, it became clear to me that a lot of jobs in corporate America are pointless. I was working at a big company that had to go through a round of layoffs. They called is Reduction In Force, which quickly became RIF. People were riffed rather than fired or let go. The banality of evil lies in corporate jargon. As a low level functionary with computer skills my job was to keep track of who had been riffed by their job function.

The first thing I noticed is management did not seem to know what many of their positions did for the company. The managers could talk about their direct reports, but the people creating the titles and roles were often unsure about the reason the positions were created in the first place. Most jobs seemed to evolve into an all-around staff assistant after they were created. Assistant accounting manager was just an office clerk that worked in a cubicle over in accounting.

The other thing that became clear is the work being done by the people riffed was not all that important as no one missed it. Some tasks were moved to other people, but most of it was just busy work that was eliminated with the person. The 20% cut in office staff did not result in 20% less work. It just reduced the number of meetings and the volume of paper moving around the office. The truth was, many of the remaining jobs were just make work as well.

When you read the work product of the academy, the thing you see right away is much of it is nonsense busy work. These are people with no useful skills and nothing to do so they fritter away their time in a game of make believe. They imagine themselves as academic and intellectuals. Their specialty is basically a hobby of their own creation, which is an offshoot of their mentor’s hobby. You could eliminate the social science and humanities and no one outside the academy would notice.

The other thing you notice about these nonsense fields is the struggle to apply these boutique theories to anything resembling reality. Queer studies makes perfect sense within the extremely narrow scope of academic queerness. Outside of that narrow scope it makes no sense whatsoever. Much of what is produced in these pseudo-intellectual fields – that is a generous description – is a desperate attempt to apply these crackpot theories to real world situations.

The financial structure of the American university system is unsound and serious cracks are starting to appear. There has been a 15% decline in public university enrollments over the last two years. Some of it is due to the Covid panic, but that is just an accelerant in this trend. The higher education Ponzi scheme cannot withstand drops in enrollment without it creating very serious financial problems. Demographics is only going to make this issue more obvious.

You have to wonder if what lies over the horizon is the biggest reduction in force we have seen since the collapse of the buggy whip industry. Colleges will be forced to cut costs and the low hanging fruit is the nonsense studies. It is not hard to imagine a university system riffing entire departments. We may be seeing the peak of bourgeois decadence in higher education. What lies ahead is a massive contraction that eliminates these sorts of fields entirely.

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  • Identity Politics
  • Whitey & Whiteness
  • Xirls and Xims
  • Our Glaciers, Ourselves

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B125
B125
2 years ago

Colleges won’t collapse, they will increase the number of international “students”. Here in Canada every college campus, from high level to trade school – is flooded with strange bearded brown men, some in turbans. Small college towns are now Islamic or Sikh republics. None of these people do very much learning, but they do pay exorbitant international fees. In exchange they get their “degree” and a path to Canadian permanent residency. Great for landlords and corporations who continue to lower wages. A great cuisine enrichment opportunities for small white cities – never before could Biryani be ordered from 5 locations… Read more »

imbroglio
imbroglio
2 years ago

This podcast is one for the ages. You must preserve a copy! I had a human/ice interaction this morning when I slipped on the way out the door.

“Zey are twying to dwive us mad, Weynaldo, but as the whightful King of Wuwitania, I must not let zem…”
— Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894

Banana Boat
Banana Boat
2 years ago

OT: The Democrat party is floating the idea of the military seizing power so they can override the 2024 election. Check out Rod Dreher’s take on a WaPo op-ed published with the support of three ex generals: “I read this Post op-ed as a trial balloon by the Washington establishment to see how successful they might be in instigating a national media freakout over the Enemy Within — a bona fide Red (State) Scare. They could eliminate all internal dissenters from the new left-wing ideological orthodoxy enforced on soldiers, sailors, and airmen by kicking them out, and convincing sympathizers to… Read more »

Whiskey
Whiskey
Reply to  Banana Boat
2 years ago

My assumption is that Hillary paid for the Generals to write their opinions of how to crush the Deplorables good and hard, as she works to get rid of Joe the Pooper and Heels Up Harris. The plan being to install Hillary! as VP and have Joe the Pooper step down while Heels Up Harris is shuttled off to a Supreme Court Judgeship. Harvey Weinstein is reportedly likely to be released, all the better to go back to bundling for Hillary and molesting starlets and other Hollywood Hos. When he was arrested it was basically the Obama people deep sixing… Read more »

BeAprepper
BeAprepper
Reply to  Banana Boat
2 years ago

Astonishing.

The Left has seized control of all the institutions, cultural messaging, political power, the schools, yet here we are on the other side of the great divide, prepared to resist to the end. Ever wonder what it is that renders us immune to these pathological memes that makes so many others sick in the head?

Or.

Maybe they were already a little off kilter, sitting ducks for whatever mental pathogen that comes along, 2 + 2 really does make 5. The social isolation caused by mandates furthered deteriorated the mental health of many and predisposed them for infection.

TomA
TomA
Reply to  Banana Boat
2 years ago

The proper response to this type of craven intimidation is to buy more ammo, put it in army surplus ammo boxes, bury it in or around junk yards or used car lots where ground penetrating radar or magnetometers are ineffective at discovering these stashes. The hard lesson that must be learned by these poseur bad-asses is that a PR campaign will not stop a bullet traveling 2,800 feet per second.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Banana Boat
2 years ago

Banana Boat: Dreher is generally full of shite, but I already saw the headline with the 3 generals at Daily Mail Online. Since the left always projects, this trial balloon merely confirmed my already solid belief that they’re not going to back down in any way but continue to push balls to the wall – on covid, on control, and on world citizenism. One reason I find myself commenting less and less here is because so many are still enmeshed in the left-right or dem/rep paradigm. And far too many still cannot conceive of not voting or participating in the… Read more »

LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  3g4me
2 years ago

I feel the way you do about the small government, “live and let live,” “leave me alone” types. They may agree that we are not going to vote our way out of this but their solution is libertarianism. Only a subset of Northern Europeans respond to constitutions and non agression principles and no one else. Most of the groups in the world literally can’t imagine why they should leave you alone.

threestars
threestars
Member
2 years ago

The last phoneme in “pedagogy” is spelled with a “gi”, as in gin the drink. Not with a “g-i” as in “git”

Walt
Member
Reply to  threestars
2 years ago

Have another gin, you git.

Vajynabush
Vajynabush
Reply to  threestars
2 years ago

Pronunciation is not Z Man’s strong point. He continues to pronounce Gramsci as “Gramsey,” when it’s pronounced “Grahm-she.”

Vajynabush
Vajynabush
Reply to  Vajynabush
2 years ago

Furthermore, the name Ursula is accented on the first syllable.

krustykurmudgeon
krustykurmudgeon
2 years ago

what’s weird is that the areas where, based on income, people should be doing pretty well, probably have a lot of bad outcomes. Like I wouldn’t be surprised if half of the current teenagers who live in Scarsdale or Potomac, MD will either be mentally ill or have personality issues in ten years. It kind of makes me wonder if a business could make a killing by finding untapped talent pool in the midwest of Tom, Dick and Harrys (or whatever the 2021 equivalent of those names are).

ProZNoV
ProZNoV
2 years ago

In re:

TikTok “Slave traders cannabalized African Slaves”

Am I the only one who thought :

If “Pork is the other white meat”, have we finally discovered the other “dark” meat?

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
2 years ago

upon reflection, i feel that the college model itself is obsolete, and that 80% of existing colleges (at peak) will go under. this will be a net plus for society, and not a small one. public school system (k – 12) is also obsolete, for same reasons. its demise will be a huge huge plus for society, as it has become a disease vector. alot of lazy people are going to have to work real jobs, for once in their lives.

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

The Amish young men who do work around my farm only go to 8th grade.

It doesn’t seem to have affected them negatively.

Recently, they dug 26 post holes by hand, that’s right 26, in a span of 8 hours, built 2×4 posts,(I use three screwed together), and set all 26 in cement. All with a great attitude.

I’ve told them that they are uniquely positioned for the coming times. I think they know it.

Vizzini
Member
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivner
2 years ago

Why do you use bunched 2x4s instead of treated round posts?

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
Reply to  Vizzini
2 years ago

Great question Vizzini. First, I don’t use round posts. Most don’t. Most use 4”x4” treated 8 foot posts for fence posts, etc. The downside is unless you get them dried out, if you install them in the ground when they are wet, they tend to bend like a banana as they dry. To avoid that, you screw together two, or better yet three 2×4 eight footers together. As straight as possible. As they dry, they tend to compete with each other and stay straight. I would post photos of my orchard but hell if I know how. Anyway, leave it… Read more »

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
Reply to  Bartleby the Scrivner
2 years ago

Treated lumber is almost never dry when you buy it. It takes several seasons to dry completely.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
2 years ago

OT: oldies are leading a break out in socal, against recent masking mandate. was in the grocery store yesterday, and other oldies were all over the place sans masks! and the store didn’t have any signs posted about it, either. was in a liquor store day before yesterday, and no masks. looks like people and business here are starting to just ignore madman newsom, and his media monkees.

Zorost
Zorost
2 years ago

“Colleges will be forced to cut costs and the low hanging fruit is the nonsense studies.”

Nigga, have you been unconscious for the past 40 years? The nonsense studies are the LAST programs that will be cut…

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
Reply to  Zorost
2 years ago

Fascinating. I can see that. Enrolment will be the issue. If enrolment declines enough, the institutions will have grounds to drop the program… I am not sure I am understanding what I am seeing out there these days. Anyone with an IQ above freezing is aware of the education scam. Yet every year the institutions are cranking out unemployable graduates in kitten studies. The kids have to know going in, what they’ll face coming out. But… they do it anyway…? The only reason I can see for this is that the kids are so desperate to hang on to their… Read more »

Tashtego
Member
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

If they are trying to hold on to chilldhood i would think that would be against the more natural inclination of the young. Maybe the state of being economically supported but free to participate in behavior their parents might disapprove of but the institution reinforces?

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Tashtego
2 years ago

Sorry to break it you, but getting old sucks. The hell of it is even my geriatric ass can outbike a lot of people literally 1/4 my age.

TomA
TomA
Reply to  Forever Templar
2 years ago

Come visit. One of my rides is 40 miles of singletrack and we go up and over a mountain pass at 9,800 feet. And the only guys that ride this with me are all over 60. If that doesn’t confirm how fucked we are, nothing will.

vmax71
Reply to  Forever Templar
2 years ago

It is because motivated 50 year old works out a lot harder (has way more free time) than a 38 year old dude just getting settled in life with 3 toddlers and wife and starting to tighten down his career. At 50, you have time to work out with your 16 yo son after he picks up his younger siblings from school because you are already established in your job and have a lot more free time on your hands.

3g4me
3g4me
Reply to  Forever Templar
2 years ago

Yes, aging sucks, but determination and grit count for a lot. I recently switched my warm up at the gym from doing the elliptical to pushing the torque tank/fitness sled for 10-15 minutes set at moderate resistance with a 25 lb plate on top. This one nogger keeps leaving 8-10 45 lb plates loaded up on it every morning and is too lazy to put them back, so my actual warm up before my warm up is lifting all those plates one at a time and placing them back near the racks. How many other 63 year old women can… Read more »

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

That last paragraph makes an excellent point. A lot of these kidults never actually leave the campus and if they do, it’s often living in the imaginary but very participatory realms of media consumption.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

these are people who *only* make bad decisions. they are super naive and probably not even 100 IQ. four years of LARPg around on campus, then a lifetime of low income living — and student loan debt they cannot repay and cannot discharge. what happens if biden forgives student loan debt? no more student loans. what happens to colleges predicated on ever growing tuition $$, when the suckers can’t borrow it any longer. they die.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
2 years ago

The office class, though, has got itself such a deal.

Per the Zman’s Segregation theme:

They can work from home;

Their nice places will be uncrowdwd and free of deplorables;

Better yet, 3/4 of Negroes won’t be allowed in either.

Problems solved, baby!
One need only repeat the vaxx shahada.
It’s an easy religion to convert to.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Alzaebo
2 years ago

Oo, update:

“the CDC’s ‘green zone’ plan for segregating ‘high risk’ potential COVID patients via forced relocations.”

Hawaii. I choose Hawaii.
Castaway with nothing but a tomahawk, heritage & hemp seeds, fishing line & hooks, and scent lures for wahines.

Gespenst
Gespenst
Reply to  Alzaebo
2 years ago

Most jobs that can be done from home in the USA can be done from home in India for a fraction of the cost.

The managerial class is well aware of this, even if the e-mail job caste is not.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Gespenst
2 years ago

Bingo. I’ve told this to all my relatives who now work from home due to Covid silliness. That they now compete with Rajiv in India—and Rajiv is hungrier than they are. Some acknowledge this, some look incredulous. The truth stings.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
2 years ago

The green power narrative lies in ruins as coal-fired electricity output reached an all-time high of 10,350 Terawatt hours in 2021:

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/global-coal-power-demand-track-record-green-energy-transition-crumbles

You just love to see it.

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
2 years ago

People on this side of the divide should be more open to solar panels. Forget the Gaia worship stuff. I’ve gained independence from the grid. Independence from the looneys. As the grids are over whelmed with increasing (mandated) electric cars, and rolling blackouts occur in America, I’ll still have hot water and the ability to cook. As Gaia worshippers raise prices of gas to untenable prices for consumers, I’ll have the ability to travel when I get Mr. Musk’s pickup truck. I don’t trust the system, the leftists, or the vibrants that will be running it in short order, and… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  The Greek
2 years ago

Absolutely, solar and wind make a lot of sense for off-grid, independent applications.

I was taking a poke at the lunatic globalists that believe they can run Western civilization’s grid baseload solely on bird cuisinarts and solar fryers.

As for the Cybertruck, I think that Ford will manage to start delivering the new F-150 Lightning for several months prior to the first Cybertruck deliveries.

Rando
Rando
Reply to  The Greek
2 years ago

I’m open to solar but for a whole house solution the cost can be rather steep. I’m not willing to go through the expense for that, though in the future that might change. I do have some nice portable panels for emergencies so I can run low power stuff without having to start the noisy portable generator. Handy for keeping my cellphone and radios running should a hurricane take out my power. The main issue I see with solar is if we have a SHTF crisis you’re gonna have a breakdown in international trade. So most solar panels and batteries… Read more »

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Rando
2 years ago

True. The solar panels serve as a plan for a substantial transitional period until a new normal society emerges. This means a new regime after a collapse or some type of secession. In the case of a SHTF moment where no recovery happens, it at least aids you in surviving what would sure to be an initial mass die off.

BeAPrepper
BeAPrepper
Reply to  The Greek
2 years ago

Location, especially latitude. A string of cold dark winter days in the more northern latitudes may make reliance on solar energy dubious, however a wood stove, down comforters, and candles will see you through.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  The Greek
2 years ago

you can buy used panels at super low prices. would never put panels up on my roof though (huge fire hazard).

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

Solar module efficiencies degrade at 1% per year. In 20 years, all those arrays out there will be putting out 80% of what they do today. Old modules are no bargain either, most of them have dismal energy densities. Last I saw, they were up around 400W per module – and those were very pricey. Modules aren’t the only price consideration; if you want any degree of autonomy for extended cloudy weather, you will need batteries – lots of them, and they aren’t cheap either. An installation like that will easily cost $50k. Solar energy is a pipe dream. Sure,… Read more »

Ronnieo
Ronnieo
Member
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

I think we are all underestimating what white men are capable of when it comes down to the wire

It brings a sharpness

The Greek
The Greek
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

You’re correct about the price and all the specs. To me, that 50k was well worth it for that autonomy. I can tell you that it definitely does provide hot water and heat. I’ll tell you that I also invested in tankless hot water/boiler combo, which is substantially more efficient than hot water heaters with tanks. I’ve also spent plenty on insulation and renovations. Sure, as panel efficiency degrades, adjustments in usage would need to follow, but I can cross that bridge when I get to it.

Disruptor
Disruptor
2 years ago

Cross over papers about Feminism and Ice or Math or Agriculture is an important subject. They use these cross over papers to get a foot in the door of a new location to utilize for resources and as a new locus of viral reproduction. One one of them gets in to the target, then they get a pay check, have an office and supplies, and have the prestige of of their organization. They become a commissar to hassle others, to get language into documents, and get help boost others in the door, and generally problematize up the place. Supporting woman… Read more »

370H55V
370H55V
2 years ago
LineInTheSand
LineInTheSand
Reply to  370H55V
2 years ago

I am heartened by the upvotes for 370H55V’s comment.

By any defintion, what Hungary did was fascism, meaning state protection of the traditional people.

Fascism may not be our final destination but it is a necessary step from our current position.

usNthem
usNthem
2 years ago

Good Lord – more equitable human, ice interactions?? So I guess salting icy roads is mean to the ice. Or digging a hole in the ice so one can fish is painful. What about evil ice breaking ships? There is a monumental amount of chaff in our system that either needs to be productively repurposed or eliminated.

Vizzini
Member
Reply to  usNthem
2 years ago

Even those absurdities are an attempt to apply Earth logic to words that are not intended to actually mean anything.

The Infant Phenomenon
The Infant Phenomenon
Reply to  usNthem
2 years ago

And what about those ice sculptures that are carved with chainsaws?

honkytonk
honkytonk
2 years ago

I’m reminded of my first year at the University of Virginia and meeting with my advisor, who was a professor of anthropology. In my attempt at small talk, I made the “fatal error” of speaking blasphemy. When I casually uttered “primitive” societies, he promptly corrected me that “we refer to them as ‘less developed’”. “Um, ok”. At that time I thought it strange and felt some (undeserved) shame. That was in 1988. Looking back now, I realize how even then how corrupted and pozzed our universities were.

ArthurinCali
ArthurinCali
Reply to  honkytonk
2 years ago

If military service did one thing for me, it would be the knowledge of how other societies live and operate counter to the Western world.

I’ll never forget seeing guards with AK-47s posted up in front of restaurants like Pizza Hut to discourage robberies.

Or the time we assisted Australia in operations in East Timor. Seeing entire cities on fire off-shore due to civil strife and ethnic hatred was revealing.

Come to think of it, maybe the plan here is to equalize us all to a primitive level as we sink further down as a country.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  ArthurinCali
2 years ago

It is far easier to achieve equality by reducing civilization to savagery than it is to achieve it by civilizing the savage.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 years ago

That’s the essential aspect of “socialism”—dragging all down to the lowest common “denominator”. It is the only way to make the unequal, equal. Equal is misery that is.

honkytonk
honkytonk
Reply to  ArthurinCali
2 years ago

Right? It’s like the dude never left the ivory tower. One trip to a shithole country would disabuse one of that delusion. But willful ignorance is strong in some people I suppose.

Vizzini
Member
Reply to  ArthurinCali
2 years ago

I’m pretty sure the ruling elite think Brazil is a damn fine arrangement. If not, they’re doing a pretty good accidental impression of thinking they do.

Hi -Ya!
Hi -Ya!
Reply to  ArthurinCali
2 years ago

I was in Belfast in the early 90s and remember stuff like that. Tanks in the streets. I made the mistake of trying to photograph one!

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Hi -Ya!
2 years ago

You need not go to Belfast. It has happened—and might again—here in the USA. During the race riots of the middle 60’s, I traveled through Plainfield, NJ one Saturday evening. National Guard on every street corner, with the other corners a mix of State and local police. Eerie sight under the yellow glow of the street light to see uniformed men with Garands and full combat gear.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  honkytonk
2 years ago

The poz was well advanced by 1988. It was making inroads by 1968.

A.B Prosper
A.B Prosper
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 years ago

Free Speech Movement at Berkley was how it got in. Back in those days ,prior to that degeneracy was not tolerated as “free speech” especially given that most college students were under 21 and therefore in many states still subject to En Loco Parentis rules. If the DR were to run future universities , they’d start at 16 or 17 and teaching things like CRT to a minor (i.e under 21) would be a crime , on par with giving a kid drugs or grooming Get them out before 21 and you can keep the mush brains from being turned… Read more »

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
2 years ago

1. enrollments are crashing, now 2. men are walking away from the degree->drone job treadmill, now 3. very few of the people with bogus degrees are gainfully employed; they will never be able to pay back their loans 4. coof has to be hitting foreign student levels hard, if only because traveling is so iffy now 5. if you cut STEM from your curriculum you lose all those STEM majors (and remember, there are no new students to take their place, in xirl shit) – and you lose all the STEM funding; this is critical 6. there is a gross… Read more »

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

I’d bet you’re precisely wrong.

“STEM” remains only as an excuse for the rest, as boob-bait for the bubbas.

The time of excuse-needing is over.

Money and economy no longer exist.

No libertarianism-resembling argument for or against anything is even possibly correct.

Only xirl is real, forever.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Hemid
2 years ago

how is STEM bait for anyone but a STEM major? sorry you are so frightened by life it makes you say silly things…

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

STEM is slowly being undermined by wokeness. It is alive and well and progressing there. The pressure (and screws) are being put to departments to produce increased minority graduates. The result is a lessening of standards and a production for the market of degreed abominations. For example, shortly before I retired, I made the acquaintance of a nice Hispanic kid who was majoring in “Engineering Management”. Upon questioning him wrt what such a major entails, it became obvious that this was in a track that allowed him to bypass much of the fundamental core coursework in mathematics and such previously… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

I tend to agree sbout international travel during Beer Flu.

The death cult can, and already has changed the rules for crossing international borders.

There are already reports of people who left home topped up with jabs, only to return and find they need to quarantine for two weeks on their own dime because they lack proper boosters.

No thanks.

Tom K
Tom K
2 years ago

“Colleges will be forced to cut costs and the low hanging fruit is the nonsense studies.”

I haven’t listened to the podcast yet. Anyway, hope you’re right on that statement. OTOH, if nonsense studies antifa is cut loose, won’t they be out on the streets in full force?

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Tom K
2 years ago

If you have no money, you have no money and must cut positions—but I’ve yet to see this happen—and of course those nonsense studies departments have loud screamers and political power.

Way back when, my University was caught in an economic squeeze and finally designate three departments for potential elimination. One department had perhaps a dozen majors and had graduated three students over a period of *years*. It too would not be missed. However, the department survived, least the precedent be set. Tenured faculty do not jeopardize their sinecures.

Tom K
Tom K
Reply to  Compsci
2 years ago

I was thinking in particular of Peter Turchin’s theory of elite over-production. All these privileged (hate to use that word but I can’t think of any better) children of the elite who aren’t intellectually capable of attaining their parents’ status end up in these departments. They become fertile recruiting material for Antifa. Would they do more harm if cut loose from their faculty positions? That fits with the theory.

https://peterturchin.com/PDF/Turchin_JPR2012.pdf

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Compsci
2 years ago

Tom, I’ve not heard of Turchin’s theory of elite over production, although his description of cycles of conflict rings true. I shall muse upon it. Not sure of the numbers wrt needed positions, but a quick Google indicates… “There are over 135,097 College Professors currently employed in the United States.” Does this number fill the “need” for children of the elites? Hell if I know. Having come from a STEM department, I really never knew a well heeled Prof coming from “old money”–if that’s where we are going. Or perhaps we are only talking of fake degrees granted to unworthy… Read more »

AnotherAnon
AnotherAnon
2 years ago

Zman, the eco blabber farming claptrap made me laugh out loud! The 6th largest car company in the world has a 30B capitalization and it loses 6B a year. Guess how many sales they have? Zero! But they do manufacture two “green” trucks a day! Two! Welcome to the Green Economy – a parallel economy being created to support the “sustainable” material (and more importantly, mental) needs of Green Bodies! Rivian perfectly represents the growing drag on the economy that “green” imposes. It can’t go bust soon enough! Fortunately, it looks like the Green is heading for a big reality… Read more »

Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land
Reply to  AnotherAnon
2 years ago

Meantime, Rivian just announced plans to build a $6B plant in GA.
Ironic too that Rivian’s current plant located in Normal, IL.

ProZNoV
ProZNoV
Reply to  Stranger in a Strange Land
2 years ago

Right to work state. No unions to speak of in GA.

mmack
mmack
Reply to  Stranger in a Strange Land
2 years ago

Rivian’s plant in Normal, IL is the old Diamond Star Motors plant. It started as a joint venture between Chrysler and Mitsubishi in the mid 1980s. The plant closed in 2015 so it was sitting there unused until Rivian bought it. I’m sure the Illinois taxpayers are picking up the tab to get Rivian to set up production.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  AnotherAnon
2 years ago

This is the best single article I’ve found debunking the green scam:

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-near-impossible

Well-written, easy to read, and extensively sourced it blows any argument for bird cuisinarts and solar fryers out of the water.

trumpton
trumpton
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
2 years ago

Like anyone in govt cares about facts,

All their positions are indefensible in a logical or reality based argument.

It does not matter.

ProZNoV
ProZNoV
Reply to  AnotherAnon
2 years ago

No actual contractor will buy an electric vehicle: no one is going to accept: “I’ll be delayed getting to the jobsite for 5 hours because the fast-charger station was occupied and I had to trickle charge it”.

The Rivian looks cool, but it’s a yuppie toy, not a working vehicle.

trumpton
trumpton
Reply to  ProZNoV
2 years ago

The whole point of electric cars is that no ordinary people will own a car.

Its about preventing you being able to travel independently.

krustykurmudgeon
krustykurmudgeon
2 years ago

Food for thought – what if mass incompetence causes loss of electricity and therefore any digitized enslavement becomes impossible to maintain

ArthurinCali
ArthurinCali
Reply to  krustykurmudgeon
2 years ago

That is something I ponder as well. The digital surveillance apparatus requires constant maintenance and upkeep.

As we boldly venture into the age of idiocracy these systems cannot sustain themselves. Between the breakdowns in infrastructure and the loss of highly skilled workers in the name of glorious diversity, how will Wokistan operate?

honkytonk
honkytonk
Reply to  ArthurinCali
2 years ago

I’m beginning to think that Idiocracy was overly optimistic

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  honkytonk
2 years ago

No doubt. Dutton has a video review of the film in which he says as much.

krustykurmudgeon
krustykurmudgeon
Reply to  honkytonk
2 years ago

I can’t post the link so I’ll say this. Google “revolver news idiocracy” and its the first post you see. What we have is idiocracy mixed in with jonestown

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  krustykurmudgeon
2 years ago

Much good and many pissed off young people 🙂

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  krustykurmudgeon
2 years ago

Krusty-

I think this is what will happen and ultimately cause the globalist plans to go down in flames.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  krustykurmudgeon
2 years ago

We won’t need the equipment to actually work, the master class will simply say it works by magic.

We’ll believe them.
What’s worse, they’ll believe it, too

BeAPrepper
BeAPrepper
Reply to  krustykurmudgeon
2 years ago

Do not go gentle into that good night.

The loss of electricity won’t be total. First there will be brown outs and blackouts in preselected areas. The State will maintain that smaller number of competent people in order to sustain itself. The lights will go out in the imperial city last just as they did in Rome.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
2 years ago

School districts now warning parents about cardiac events in kids and hiring on-staff cardiologists because, “THE SCIENCE!!!!”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/school-district-new-york-sends-email-warning-parents-sudden-cardiac-arrest-students-grades-k-12/

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2 years ago

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ArthurinCali
ArthurinCali
2 years ago

Remember, in Xirl science everything is part of a complex and sinister plot to maintain the patriarchal system. This article is from a few years ago but encompasses this belief quite well.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180531-how-womens-body-parts-have-been-named-after-men

The diminishing of Western Civilization and her (pun intended) accomplishments becomes a zero sum Zirl concept of old dead White Men were bad, are bad, and will always be bad.

What it seems to boil down to is a subconscious feeling of envy and resentment for a lack of achievement and discovery by them.

Lettie
Lettie
2 years ago

Merry Christmas! When I read today’s post, I was filled with the warm spirit of the season. ZMan thinks the economic model for universities will fail! Much needed optimism. Please do an economics post on the way this might work. The podcast features meta-educators from my neck of the woods-those heroes who are training the CRT teachers of Amerika. Even in the Boomer heyday, education majors were acknowledged as the stupidest on campus, so that hasn’t really changed. My guess? China will stop the flow of foreign students. They don’t really need it anymore. Enrollment will continue to drop. Labor… Read more »

DLS
DLS
Reply to  Lettie
2 years ago

Lettie, my only quibble with your post is that China will stop the flow of foreign students. The Chinese are not stupid enough to come all the way over here to enroll in gender studies or art history. They enroll in STEM/medicine and steal our scientific research and technology.

KGB
KGB
Reply to  DLS
2 years ago

And for the time being, the face earned by attending a name-brand school in the Anglosphere is worth the trip

Lettie
Lettie
Reply to  DLS
2 years ago

Maybe they’ll just give our cancelled STEM people jobs over there. It must amuse them that some of our most respected scientists are now persona non grata.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Lettie
2 years ago

Say it with a Chinese accent:
Operation Papercrip!

Tashtego
Member
Reply to  DLS
2 years ago

It might be the case that they have surpassed us in technical capabilities at this point. Our sustained efforts at enstupidation and their equally sustained efforts to improve by any means will achieve that result. That will be a good way to gauge the degree of our decline, watching foreign enrollment decline in general and chinese in particular.

China dude
China dude
Reply to  Lettie
2 years ago

China just changed their law this school year so that the lowest 50% of middle school graduation test (zhongkao) takers can only enter technical high schools – a direct path to factory work. Upper class parents are terrified of this so will send their children to TOEFL/SAT prep “international schools” instead for a large fee with a future at a design school/liberal arts uni. They desire to avoid the hard life and losing face by dropping into a lower social caste at all costs.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  China dude
2 years ago

OK, I get that. I had fear that the luck of the draw in the gene-pool lottery would not pass on to my children myself at one time. But does the parent spending money on prep schools for a TOEFL/SAT edge change the basics of the underlying intellect (low) of their misbegotten children? In short can you “fake” it forever?

China dude
China dude
Reply to  Compsci
2 years ago

If their average IQ as a population is 105, and personally having money to be well educated probably kicks it up to 120 or so (Lynn’s +15 for students going to college) that, even despite the dunces eventually being weeded out – you still have kids who have higher iqs and better study habits than those they are competing against in the West (who are probably too busy playing Call of Duty 12 World of Gay-ops and smoking weed).

Long term will it last? Well, at least that’s one thing they got longer than lil Johnny!

Wkathman
Wkathman
2 years ago

Hey Z-man, this is totally off-topic: I’m sure you’ve heard of Millennial Woes. He’s doing his annual “Millenniyule” series of interviews with various dissidents right now. He just had Jim Goad on the other day. He’s had Jared Taylor on at least a couple other years and I’m hoping he has Taylor back at some point during this Christmas season. It strikes me that you would be an ideal guest for Woes. Any thoughts on that?

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  thezman
2 years ago

So does Jazzhands over at TRS. They’re both grug brains and share a common talent for catty drama and bitchiness. God forgive this, but “just sayin’,” maybe it’s an inferiority complex.

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  thezman
2 years ago

I like you both but I can imagine there’s an irresolvable dissonance between your entrepreneur-American “uncultured” thing and his, e.g., having an extensively annotated mental tier list of Depeche Mode b-sides that he’s refined since he was ten years old and can explain to you for three hours (but won’t).

Unfortunate.

Wkathman
Wkathman
Reply to  thezman
2 years ago

I’m sorry to hear that. Too much infighting and petty resentments on this side of the great divide. Our opponents have similar troubles, but it hurts them less thanks to their control of the culture. We “extremists” can ill afford so much internal rancor.

Wkathman
Wkathman
Reply to  thezman
2 years ago

Very true. However, the enemies that you’re collecting should be on the OTHER side of the great divide, not our own. I suppose not too many on the other side would be willing to read you in the first place. You rightly note that “there are a lot of petty people.” Just wish we didn’t have so many of those petty people on OUR side.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  thezman
2 years ago

also, if you “pick fights” with someone better known than you are, you pick up extra clicks from their audience.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Wkathman
2 years ago

whom do you think is competing for the same niche (i.e. $$) with Zman?

honkytonk
honkytonk
Reply to  thezman
2 years ago

Interesting. I was listening to his show with Black Pigeon Speaks last night and even he was getting frustrated with MW. BPS is fairly tame by DR standards so that was quite revealing.

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  honkytonk
2 years ago

BPS is pretty down on Generation Cthulhu….I mean…Millennials, that might be why.

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
2 years ago

You gotta fix the comments so we can post memes, Z. The other day on Blab, one of the wanks posted one with Charlton Heston smooching that chimp chick on Planet Of The Apes, and the caption read, “LITERALLY EVERY COMMERCIAL I SEE THESE DAYS…”

😆👍

The lunacy of Blab is dangerous… but the wit and humour is absolutely lethal.

There is no better sound in the world than that of dissidents laughing over shared rude jokes!

Merry Christmas you guys! Keep your stick on the ice!

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

LITERALLY EVERY COMMERCIAL

Hahahahahaha
Dammit boy!

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Alzaebo
2 years ago

Wait, wait

Was that the same year Kirk kissed Uhura?

Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
2 years ago

Was it you who recommended Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”? I’m listening to it right after this episode.

https://youtu.be/MxDj-v4Eqvw

Nature Boy
Nature Boy
2 years ago

You people are delusional. You suffer from the misconception that your opinion matters to reality. You laugh at the risible insanity of the university system, and yet if you use the wrong language in the wrong place the system and its allies will sue you and likely win. The university system is a network of power. Its purpose is to have power, at which it excels. The purpose of xirl science is the same as an effete aristocrat wearing a frilly lace collar. Not only will it never voluntarily cede power or funding, it is incapable of doing so. To… Read more »

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
Reply to  Nature Boy
2 years ago

Nonsense. The intellectual class is periodically cleansed and purged, often in quick succession. It has to be. Ancient Chinese dynasties would often round up intellectuals and bury them up to their necks in sand. The warriors would ride by on fast horses and throw spears through their exposed heads. In Russia they’d get arrested in the dead of night and carted off to the camps with no show or ceremony. You-know-who loaded them into cattle cars with the joos and disposed of them in great numbers too. After the war all the former establishment intellectuals were purged again. We are… Read more »

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

The difference between Western academia right now and other intellectuals in the past is that that academia is an integral part of the Power Structure. To destroy academia one must destroy the Power Structure. And at present there is no exterior force with anywhere close to enough puissance to do that.

So, you say you want a revolution? Well, we’d all love to see the plan.

Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 years ago

I’d love to see it too. Any plan (regardless of the degree of complexity) it seems would require numerous pieces of metal hurled about at supersonic speed.

Glenfilthie
Glenfilthie
Member
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 years ago

Again – nonsense. You don’t think the nazis replaced the academics in the universities with eir own replacements? Or that the intelligentsia of the Soviet Union weren’t carrying water for the party?

Our esteemed blog host just got laughing cramps laughing himself silly at their antics. Revolution? I don’t have to lift a finger. These guys are literally too dumb to keep the lights on. They are studying kittens, their own vaginas, and emoting over stuff that didn’t happen. They will fall apart on their own

*in my best Montgomery Burns imitation*

“They’ve defunded the police, have they? Excellent….”

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Glenfilthie
2 years ago

Romantic Aryanism, the philosophical underpinning of Nazism, was born and developed in German academia in the second half of the 19th century. Except for the odd Finkel and Finkel-lover, the Nazis left the academic establishment intact. And yes the Soviet intelligentsia carried water for the party, just as today’s academic anti-whites carry it for the Power Structure. The Soviets had no need to purge academia, just as the present elites have no need to do so. Thank you for helping to make my case. As for the stupidity of the elites, it is very real and will prove fatal. However,… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 years ago

Yup. The dross were purged, yet the Emperor remained.

China dude
China dude
Reply to  Alzaebo
2 years ago

The Mongols had an army. Qin Shi Huang had an army, the feudal lords had an army, the gang of four had the university students (and an army)…

The modern University has the army now, no?

If universities are serving as the monasteries and training grounds of the Power Structure, what tangible force are they afraid of that can actually remove them from power?

Peabody
Peabody
2 years ago

I really hope you’re right about the inevitable cancelling of the idiot university “studies”. Yesterday I had a (very young) realtor reply to an inquiry I made about a house. When she sent her contact info it included her gender proclivities (at least it was she/her/hers – small mercies). So, won’t be doing business with this obvious fool. They’re not even cluing these kids into the fact that most people who have money to actually buy stuff like homes are exceedingly put off by this nonsense.

Apex Predator
Apex Predator
Reply to  Peabody
2 years ago

Pronouns, like brightly colored ‘danger hair’, septum rings, and obvious tattoos in appropriate places are wonderful outward indicators that you are dealing with an unstable element. Not unlike a Coral Snake or poisonous frog that loudly telegraphs its deadly nature. You should encourage, not discourage, these people because as you astutely pointed out they are wonderful ‘sorting tools’. We just had 5 potential hires / interviews and the very first thing I do is peep their LinkedIN. If they have the (xir/xers) in the profile, instant pass. I also read their feed history if there are lots of links/articles about… Read more »

Whiskey
Whiskey
2 years ago

The University system will only grow and grow and grow. And there will be ever more Xirls and Xirs and Xis studying Non Colonial Feminst Queer Studies. Because there is a limitless amount of money from the government and a 7 billion supply of non Whites wanting to scream about White people for pay. “Money for Nothing and chicks for free” as the song goes. What will be cut is the hard sciences, math, etc. Those are all “racist” and no administrator wants that. Instead, a lot more Xirl science! Heck the Government which funds nearly all of this will… Read more »

The Infant Phenomenon
The Infant Phenomenon
Reply to  Whiskey
2 years ago

I don’t agree, although I think I know what you mean. Distance learning is quite common already and will become even more so. LOTS of people who started telecommuting during the so-called “pandemic” are still working from home. Then there’s Project Gutenberg, and many, many libraries offer online access to a great many books, and that continues to expand. Eventually the sheer cost of attending classes on a campus somewhere while living in expensive digs near that campus is going to become too great for most people even to consider it. And we already have fully online universities offering online… Read more »

Lettie
Lettie
Reply to  The Infant Phenomenon
2 years ago

Great post. I agree with everything except “in a spectacular way.” I would predict a lingering bankruptcy. When only one student enrolls in Gender Studies in Advertising or something. The proficient math and science people won’t bother, as companies will hire them directly and the credential will be worthless.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Whiskey
2 years ago

you don’t need universities to train cadres. you do need universities to train physicists (and engineers, et als). why not do some actual research instead of just talking out your ass all the time, like a rummy. how did unis work in the cccp would be a good place to start.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

When the GI Bill was for guys, the zeitgeist was “Look, Ma, at what I can do!”

When the girls demanded their share of GI Bill education bennies, they specialized in girl display and status maneuvers: Point and Shriek.
“Look, men, at what we’re s’posed to be scared of!”

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

Henry Ford, Harley and Davidson didn’t need no fucking college engineers.

The Infant Phenomenon
The Infant Phenomenon
Reply to  Dennis Roe
2 years ago

Nor did the Romans who built aqueducts that are still in use today.

Compsci
Compsci
Reply to  Whiskey
2 years ago

A dying sun expands for millions and millions of years, seemingly getting larger and stronger without end. Then the collapse and explosion happens in a few short years and the sun is gone. So it may be with the University system.

Besides, a reduction of 80% in University enrollment would probably only bring us back to pre WWII levels. We would do just fine—assuming we get back to merit in enrollment admission.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
2 years ago

All of these xirs and xirls are on the dole, only it’s worse than being on the dole. Being on the dole has no direct external costs other than the check. These people are permanent Target looters who are on the dole. They get paid not to sit around and do nothing, but to stir up trouble. The whole feminist glacier thing came up several years ago right around the same time Sweden decided to do “feminist snow removal” which turned out as hilarious as you think it did. It was a complete and total disaster which shut the cities… Read more »

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
2 years ago

Wait, didn’t some lib ditz do feminist snow removal here?

She hated the firefighter next door because he liked Trump and his cop wife was thinner and hotter.

So, she baited him into clearing the snow from her driveway, then wrote an article about what a stupid azzhole he was.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
2 years ago

Academia is the engine of the West’s destruction and has been for roughly the last 50 years. As such, academia’s collapse is an eventuality devoutly to be wished. That said, I’ve been hearing about the so-called “academic bubble” and its imminent collapse for the last 15 years. This is not going to happen. Academia is an absolutely critical component of the Power Structure–it lends intellectual legitimacy and prestige to anti-white policies–and so it will not be allowed to fail. Could there be occasional austerity measures here and there? Yes. But the feculent locomotive will clatter merrily on.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 years ago

you are in Europe, I think?

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

Nope. A red state in AINO.

TBC
TBC
2 years ago

We brought legions of women into the workforce who would historically have found their life’s purpose in the home as housewives and mothers. The struggle now is to find something for them to do. While stroking fragile egos, no less. Long gone are mere ‘secretaries’ at my place of business, replaced by ‘Multi-Functional Co-ordinators’ (not joking about this). It is my pet theory that the more hyphens are found in a job title, the less essential that position is. Worse still, the ranks of middle managers has swelled to the point where the chiefs-to-indians ratio gobbles up the profits, as… Read more »

Apex Predator
Apex Predator
2 years ago

RE: “Riffing” (downsizing, rightsizing, consultants, etc.) There is a reason this movie should be enshrined in the halls of history as a timeless classic. Never before or since has a single film captured the true stupidity and bloat of corporate America. I did also come to learn that some companies used the film as a ‘training seminar’ on what NOT to do, I wonder if they ever got any results? Knowing regression to the mean, human nature, and corporate dysfunction I sort of doubt it. “So what would you say you do here?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OvQIGDg4I “Upper Management Written All Over Him”… Read more »

Vegetius
Vegetius
Reply to  Apex Predator
2 years ago

Two xirls at the same time, man.

Anonymous White Male
Anonymous White Male
2 years ago

“Colleges will be forced to cut costs and the low hanging fruit is the nonsense studies.”

I wonder. I can see that CRT or Transgender Critical Theory might be subsidized by foundations, or, more likely, by the taxpayer. I mean, they are such important subjects that everyone should be exposed to. /sarc.

Hopefully, the result will be 80% of colleges and universities closing up shop. Young people can masturbate just as well at home while attending classes on line.

Hoagie
Hoagie
Reply to  Anonymous White Male
2 years ago

Perhaps, but being at home could limit their interactions with homos, lesbians and trannies. That would be bigoted.

Anonymous White Male
Anonymous White Male
Reply to  Hoagie
2 years ago

No, they could interact with them online, too. And virtual reality is so much more real than real reality.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Hoagie
2 years ago

the problem is there aren’t enough perverts to go around. huge increase in demand, lately…

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
2 years ago

Stating the obvious, but the relentless pursuit of efficiency ends up being anti-human. The humanities only persist because the pain of efficiency is still working up the chain. They’re a joke because they’re a vestige of a world tech destroyed, but the money’s still there to fund them. With that said, I’m pro-humanities because I’m pro-human. It’s a weird place to be, because I’m on board with a Great Reset, just not the one Klaus Schwab and his ilk are after. I’d like an unraveling of much of the last 500 years, ending at the Renaissance notion that man is… Read more »

Paintersforms
Paintersforms
Reply to  Paintersforms
2 years ago

Fwiw I’d bet on the third way. Obviously there’s no going back to the 16th century, at least no more than I think there’s going to be a post-human future for wannabe gods.

I think we’re in a dialectic neither side can ‘win’ outright. Therefore take the extreme position and take your lumps to get more of what you want. Tptb certainly have, and if it seems they’re getting their way, it’s only because they’re more committed to it. Like most things, it comes down to will.

Neutrino
Neutrino
2 years ago

Ask what is missing from the college discussion.
One example is the decline in male attendance.
What do the missing males know that the rest don’t?
They see that going into massive debt is idiotic.
When they can learn a trade, work for themselves or escape from the credentialist world of gatekeepers, grievances and bullshit, they get on with their lives.
They don’t have to live on ramen with too many roommates all stuck in peonage.
Interview a few of those.
Maybe your children know some.
Ask around.

Chet Rollins
Chet Rollins
Reply to  Neutrino
2 years ago

Where I live, they’re desperate for reliable tradesmen to the extent you can make 80+k a year if you can just learn how to do basic home installations.

A lot of this is due to people who have no clue how to do basic home tasks, which is only going to get worse with Millennials and Gen Z.

A lot of it is hard work and not a cushy office job, but robots will not be replacing them anytime soon. Can’t say the same for the desk jockey.

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
Reply to  Chet Rollins
2 years ago

You would be surprised how many guys don’t know what end of a hammer to hold.

MBlanc46
MBlanc46
2 years ago

Languages and literatures, except perhaps for Spanish, history, and philosophy will be the first to go. And perhaps geography. All the grievance studies will outlast them. I’d think that more likely than discipline cutting, it will be entire institutions closing down.

Hemid
Hemid
Reply to  MBlanc46
2 years ago

Before I arrived at college almost thirty years ago, the blob we now call wokeness had already fully absorbed all of history, politics, art, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, law, theater, film, and music—except for classical performance, now a low-status target for woke intervention because it’s persistently full of non-“tech” Asians and religious Jews and other obsolete types. Mathematics is the only surviving “humanity.” Having finally, after decades of accusation, been officially declared racist by the state of California, it’s not long for this world. “This nonsense won’t get us back to the moon!” Right. That’s why we’re not there.… Read more »

The Infant Phenomenon
The Infant Phenomenon
Reply to  Hemid
2 years ago

Right. We are returning to a former time–an undemocratic time. A time in which people will again understand and acknowledge that university education is NOT for “everybody.” Let a lone a right.

Already we have a very visible difference between those who can read and writ and those who can’t. We have pictograms on restroom doors and street signs. The majority of children no longer learn cursive writing.

It’s a new kind of medieval period.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  MBlanc46
2 years ago

disagree, families have wised up about the inverse cost/benefit ratios, of going deep into debt for a worthless degree. just to work at a white collar prison, where you are tortured every day. no one is going to pay big $$ for those bogus degrees, now.

Lucius Sulla
Lucius Sulla
2 years ago

A few years back, we had an intern (who we eventually hired) at our business consulting from a small liberal arts college in Tennessee.

One time she was discussing her father’s occupation – he was/is a professor at said small liberal arts college. She noted that her father typically finished his workday by noon and had free time the rest of the day.

I pointed out that no wonder tuition is $50k+ per year, they are only getting 50% labor utilization.

Spingehra
Spingehra
Reply to  Lucius Sulla
2 years ago

Wife’s family has a bunch of public school teachers. One Thanksgiving they were allbitching about how they don’t get paid enough and how it was fair that One of their nairdowell nephews. Made so much as a longshoreman. So I asked one of her more honest uncles what his hourly wage was adjusted for the 180 day year, he had to think about it but a while he figured about 70$ an hour at his level, including benefits about 90$ & That was twenty years ago You would have thought i had tossed a grenade. They all started flipping out… Read more »

mmack
mmack
Reply to  Spingehra
2 years ago

The hardest I’ve ever bitten my tongue in my life was a conversation with one of my wife’s relatives. Her cousin married a grade school teacher. She taught in a pretty sweet gig out in Du Page county in Illinois. Du Page is originally where all the conservatives who were sick of the rot of Chicago ran away to, like my parents. As the years have gone on the state of Silly-nois has chronically underfunded the sweet, sweet pensions of teachers, coppers, firemen, etc. So the property taxes and assorted taxes get slammed onto the backs of anyone fool enough… Read more »

Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land
Reply to  mmack
2 years ago

I greatly overestimate (lie) what my property taxes are down South where I am when speaking to my relatives who live in C(r)ook County. Afraid they’ll all wise up, empty the place out, and end up down here

SidVic
SidVic
Member
Reply to  Stranger in a Strange Land
2 years ago

It’s becoming a real problem in the region where I’m at. I’m noticing more blacks, and a bunch more whites with north or Midwest accents. Housing prices have gone crazy and enrollment of local colleges are bucking the national trend, and going up. I’ll make statements like “well, we lack diversity here”. Or “ you, escaping glorious diversity, huh?” Sorta baiting the newcomers. Very few bites so far. They are cagey. I’ve yet to tease out all the factor’s leading leading to the influx. Who these people are.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker
Reply to  Spingehra
2 years ago

I’ve been a high school science teacher for 31 years and will tell you that the pay and benefits are gold-encased. You’re right, they’re always broke but when everyone is making payments on new $60,000 vehicles and McMansions it should be no surprise. The only thing I’ve bitched about are my battles with resident “pissy-ass” Democrats who have run the whole thing into the ground over the last 40 years. I could retire on February 1st and my take home pay is as good as my current salary. $1000 per week to sit on my butt. I could work 6… Read more »

Dennis Roe
Dennis Roe
Reply to  Coalclinker
2 years ago

You’ll need a 1000 bucks to buy the wheelbarrow that gonna replace your wallet.

TomA
TomA
2 years ago

Once again, reality intrudes, so have not yet listened. Nevertheless, my 2 xcents. The real story of the current state of the American university system is that it is just a glorified babysitting institution. A place to temporarily park hormone-driven adolescents in order to keep them off the streets as Antifa LARPers. With the exception of a few departments like Engineering, absolutely no education of any sort occurs. Rather, it’s overt Leftist indoctrination masquerading as liberal arts course study and the mush-brains suck it up like a Hoover vacuum. And the covert purpose of this grift is to scam parents… Read more »

The Wild Geese Howard
The Wild Geese Howard
Reply to  TomA
2 years ago

TomA-

Fear not, they’re coming for the engineering schools as well.

Here is but one of many current examples:

https://engineering.lehigh.edu/about/dei/strategic-plan

Mr Darcy
Mr Darcy
Reply to  The Wild Geese Howard
2 years ago

Well … who need bridges anyway?

Bilejones
Member
Reply to  TomA
2 years ago

The original purpose of teaching rather than research universities was exactly that. In the pre mass communication world it was a place for the parents to send the boy to get over the awkward transition to manhood where the inevitable debacles would never be known back home.
Lost to us now,

Spingehra
Spingehra
Reply to  TomA
2 years ago

I did alright, for a drop out.. spent forty years with dirty hands. Three smart boys. One airline pilot one electrical engineer & one computer scientist. No debt & all make a hell of lot more than I ever did.
Bullshit ideas are easy to recognize & were laughed at in my house.

Eloi
Eloi
2 years ago

I, unfortunately, feel the solution to Z’s proposed problem is all too dangerously clear: further subsidizing education. As enrollment drops, make it ‘free.’ Send tons of more money into it. Call it some type of equity event (maybe phrased as a form of reparation) to deal with demographic discrepancies.

Chet Rollins
Chet Rollins
Reply to  Eloi
2 years ago

Even ‘free’ college will not work when 50% percent of people going to college don’t get any more money than high school grads, all the while losing 4 years of income and work experience. In my field, there’s been a huge shift in job interviews, focusing on programming puzzles and organized thinking over credentials. In the last four interviews I was involved in none of the applicants gave college information. It wasn’t that they didn’t go to college, but just that it was irrelevant. Even the HR gatekeepers are starting to deemphasize it. If we allowed IQ tests in our… Read more »

Apex Predator
Apex Predator
Reply to  Chet Rollins
2 years ago

You must work for one of the last sane companies left, be thankful because that is NOT the typical hiring strategy on any globohomo Western company of which there are legion.

Hiring priority is as follows: Skin Color, Vagina, Woke, Worthless Degree, Actual Job Skills.

Eloi
Eloi
Reply to  Chet Rollins
2 years ago

I have to second Apex. The scenario you describe already exists – well over 50 percent leave ‘enlightened’ but utterly bereft of skills and utterly loaded with debt. I was associated with academia for about a decade until a few years ago.

trumpton
trumpton
Reply to  Eloi
2 years ago

Dry humor at its best.

sentry
sentry
2 years ago

“You have to wonder if what lies over the horizon is the biggest reduction in force we have seen since the collapse of the buggy whip industry. It is not hard to imagine a university system riffing entire departments.” That’s why i don’t fear the woke cult, this shit is not spiritual, it’s completely materialistic, meaning it’s backed by debt money. It’s something you would expect from a decadent society waiting to collapse. Once the dollar loses its value all of the tribe’s rackets get abandoned in an instant, just look at Epstein, he funded all of those pseudo-scientistific ideas… Read more »

trumpton
trumpton
Reply to  sentry
2 years ago

You missed the Bolshevik red Terror and Mao’s cultural revolution in school?

sentry
sentry
Reply to  trumpton
2 years ago

what revolution is that, western world is already woke, only woke lunatics believe there’s any patriarchy left. You actually thought this is the dawn of a new form of America? What’s happening right now is a natural continuation of post WW2 policies. Is Biden supposed to be USA’s version of the tsar?

trumpton
trumpton
Reply to  sentry
2 years ago

The woke is the revolution. And like the 2 I mentioned they have taken power and we are in the early stages of its actions.

The large scale violence is coming and if you think its going to fade from economics you need to look at how impervious to economic collapse and mass starvation the previous murderous incarnations of the Red Guard and Cheka were.

sentry
sentry
Reply to  trumpton
2 years ago

large scale violence will be caused by total societal collapse & migrant invasion, this is the result of decades of woke policies.

Whites aren’t allowed to defend themselves cause of woke policies so non-whites, mostly blacks, are emboldened now more than ever to murder whites, but they don’t think in terms of equality & woke agenda, they do it cause they are savages who hate whitey, that doesn’t mean africans believe in feminism & gay rights.
For example asians aren’t considered the enemy by the woke agenda, yet blacks attack them relentlessly nonetheless.

Drew
Drew
Reply to  trumpton
2 years ago

There are a couple key differences. First, those programs weren’t funded by insane amounts of government debt. Second, the proles tacitly supported the revolution (or, at least, didn’t tacitly support the revolution’s opponents). Modern wokeness is mostly a debt-fueled extravagance and has little tacit support among proles. It’s tolerated because violent resistance is a losing proposition individually. Withdrawing and waiting is much more sensible.

Alzaebo
Alzaebo
Reply to  sentry
2 years ago

Now come on. Epstein taught girls math.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
2 years ago

The extremely bloated academy lives exclusively off of the blood of our children. Our children are being saddled with non-dischargeable debt to finance this evil system. There is no punishment too harsh. We must cut the funding and forbid them from replacing this funding with foreign students.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
2 years ago

the children are actually adults and they are taking on the debt willingly; it is not being imposed on them.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

You mean those 17 year olds who are told by every single adult in their life that they must go to university? Those adults?

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
2 years ago

17 year olds cannot sign up for debt. you are very ignorant.

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

OK Karl, make it 18 year olds, like it really matters. It is an absolutely evil system. Their teachers and counselors in high school tell them they must go to college, their parents tell them. The government then subsidizes a loan to them which they cannot discharge in bankruptcy. This evil system of paying for college has been the most significant part of universities becoming woke and putting out this trash.. It has also been the single driver of the absolute ballooning of the tuition. At an absolute minimum, we need to allow this debt to be discharged in bankruptcy.… Read more »

Bilejones
Member
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

The fiction that children become men at 18 is and always was ludicrous. The Victorians knew damn well that 25 was a good age of maturity, that’s when most Estates and Trusts settled on the beneficiary. The human brain isn’t fully formed until about 23.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Bilejones
2 years ago

what has anything you said got to do with the topic of adults consenting to take on debt? how the eff do kids grow up if they aren’t given any responsibility? guess what, none of my kids took on school debt, wonder why that is?

Darcy
Darcy
Reply to  karl von hungus
2 years ago

I’ll bite. They went to school 20-30 years ago when the boots still had straps?

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Tars Tarkas
2 years ago

Unfortunately, state and federal governments are in bed with academia. They are all part of the seamless Power Structure. No matter how much the dirt people may caterwaul about lavish funding of anti-white academia, that funding will continue largely undiminished.

The Infant Phenomenon
The Infant Phenomenon
Reply to  Ostei Kozelskii
2 years ago

I don’t agree. The reason for the chinnkypox “pandemic” is that 0% interest rates for–what?–12 years or so now has wiped out ALL the pension funds in the world. The political classes had two choices: Go on TV and tell their “constituents” that “There’s no more money, suckahz! It’s all gotta burn!” And then be torn to pieces by said “constituents.” OR deliberately destroy the world economy and blame it on an “invisible” enemy. They chose the second option. But now the fat is well and truly in the fire. And there ain’t no puttin’ Humpty Dumpty together again. So… Read more »

Bilejones
Member
2 years ago

And to lighten up Friday; You have to have a sneaking admiration for the renowned sardonic humor of the Russian’s. Can’t you imagine Putin and all the evil henchmen sitting around a Kremlin table “So, what are we going to name our new Gas Enterprise in Darkest Africa?”

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/06/nnpc-gazprom-to-set-up-nigaz-joint-venture/

The Infant Phenomenon
The Infant Phenomenon
Reply to  Bilejones
2 years ago

Reminds me of the time–about 40 years ago–when the Chinese began transliterating their language(s) into the Roman alphabet.

Some Englishmen had arrived in a Chinese city and were approaching their hotel when they saw the (transliterated) name of that hotel on a big sign:

FUXING HOTEL (pronounced “foo-shing”)

They began to LOL, so the Chinese escort asked why, and they told him. But they were stuck with “X” to represent “sh” by that time, so they changed the name of the hotel.

Anyway, that’s why the current ruler’s name, Xi, is pronounced “she.”  

La-Z-Man
La-Z-Man
Reply to  The Infant Phenomenon
2 years ago

This bugs me to no end. If we are writing a Chinese name in English, ie. Latin alphabet, why the hell do we write something that is pronounced ‘she’ as ‘Xi’? Same thing with that Chinese Huawei lady Meng (pronounced Mung); why don’t we write it Mung?

Tars Tarkas
Tars Tarkas
Reply to  Bilejones
2 years ago

That is hilarious.

Spingehra
Spingehra
Reply to  Bilejones
2 years ago

Lol. Beautiful.

Vizzini
Member
2 years ago

John T. Warren actually died of esophageal cancer and appears to have been a straight guy, married with kids:

https://fightec.org/events/past-events/john-t-warren-walk-a-thon/

Still obviously a loon, though.

Stephen Flemmi
Stephen Flemmi
Reply to  Vizzini
2 years ago

Allegedy.

Vizzini
Member
Reply to  Stephen Flemmi
2 years ago

Homosexuals “passing” as straight was a thing once upon a time, but in current society I can’t imagine a homosexual guy not taking advantage of his opportunity to announce his specialness and fabulousness to the world.

nailheadtom
nailheadtom
2 years ago

You could eliminate the social science and humanities and no one outside the academy would notice.

Typical Protestant Yankee numerologist thinking. If it can’t be defined by numbers that translate into dollars it’s a useless affectation. The wealthiest neighborhood in the world’s history simply can’t afford extravagancies like anthropology and art history when there are shopping centers, freeways and airports yet to be built.

Bartleby the Scrivner
Bartleby the Scrivner
Reply to  nailheadtom
2 years ago

While Z doesn’t need anyone to defend him, I’m pretty sure the statement is accurate.

If those departments were eliminated, there would be zero effect on food production, shelter construction, water provision; you know, stuff needed to live.

Are they interesting and stimulating pursuits? Perhaps. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s like sports ball. If the Sunday festivities disappeared, people would preoccupy themselves elsewhere.

Outdoorspro
Outdoorspro
Reply to  nailheadtom
2 years ago

I wonder how humankind managed to create all the wonderful art, music, and philosophy of the Renaissance without thousands of university humanities departments and majors deconstructing it through a queer lens…

How will we possibly regain that greatness unless a blue-haired harpy is there to validate it?

How much more wonderful would Rembrandt be, if only he had had a women’s studies post-grad to critique his work?

Chet Rollins
Chet Rollins
Reply to  Outdoorspro
2 years ago

He does have a point. In a sane society these institutions would edify the populace and give them a lens to remember and revere our past.

When real humanities is tried, this is what it looks like, which is why they have to shut it down:

https://aleteia.org/2019/09/04/alumni-remember-kansas-universitys-humanities-program-credited-with-catholic-conversions/

Apex Predator
Apex Predator
Reply to  nailheadtom
2 years ago

You don’t get out much do you? You are truly a man out of time. I envision a Boomer who still thinks that the humanities & liberal arts departments are staffed full of Robin Williams stimulating young white minds to join the ‘Dead Poets Society’, right? What is really there is a barren landscape full of hamplanets, danger hairs, problem glasses, septum piercings, mystery meat genetic aliens, and barely literate lefty shitlibs screaming about burning those same said books because they need to ‘smash the patriarchy’. Me thinketh the Boomer doth protest too much. You need to get it out… Read more »

Vizzini
Member
2 years ago

Since I actually am a racist by modern definition and am okay with that, at least I don’t have false consciousness!

Stephen Flemmi
Stephen Flemmi
2 years ago

Welcome back Xirl Science. And everything that isn’t science. I’m not going to use “scientoady” in any serious manner. Z doesn’t seem to have a replication crisis with respect to the number of times he can riff about all these useless PhD rubber stamp acts. Who needs comparable categories with numbers when I can make a word salad and spout off one adjective after another like Michael Eric Dyson.

Merry Christmas.

trumpton
trumpton
2 years ago

Universities fall into 2 areas as I see it. 1. Those whose main goal is to get govt and grant funding. Does not matter what is required, they will do whatever shit carrying is required to get it. 2. Those whose goal is to support and add to the tsunami of madness consuming society with complicated sounding words. People go on about overseas funding, but I doubt the Chinese are going to carry on providing that once there is no STEM. You think the pushy new rich in China and India want their kids to come back singing the new… Read more »

China dude
China dude
Reply to  trumpton
2 years ago

Chinese parents can’t imagine what is happening, they still think it’s 1980.

Severian
2 years ago

The only justification for Liberal Arts at the college level is that legit research takes a lot of time. (You need a bit of specialist training for some things, but that’s easily done). Compress all the archive and writing time for a legit history book into a year, for instance, and it’s the rough equivalent of a day job – 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 2 weeks vacation, some sick leave. Delegate that to gentleman amateurs and it takes years. Alas, that’s pretty much how it’s going to have to be, Afterwards. Any kind of funding that… Read more »

Stephen Flemmi
Stephen Flemmi
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

@Severian

Sounds like any staff position in the Army. The only position more useless the S3 (usually an O4) is the Chief of Operations (O3?). That and the fact there are manning rosters spots for staff Sergeant Major positions. Green welfare at it’s finest.

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Stephen Flemmi
2 years ago

HHC units are bad about this. The brigade combat team model imposed a lot of much needed trimming to Army command structures at the field level. Never seemed to apply to S3 portions

Severian
Reply to  thezman
2 years ago

My comment is meant as description, not prescription. In the fields of history I know fairly well, the gentlemen amateurs are doing ALL the interesting work. I wish them the best, and I wish there were 10,000x more of them! The fact is, though, that legit historical research is pretty expensive, in money and especially time. To do it right, you either need to do it full time — as an actual job, or equivalent — or spend a lot longer working on it, because archivists keep bankers’ hours and you’ll need to take time off from your own real… Read more »

trumpton
trumpton
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

Why do you think we need to externally finance?

The controller of the financing then decides the outcomes.

Seems just end up with the same oversupply of useless twats coupled with shitty incentives all over again unless people are spending their own money on their actual interests.

SidVic
SidVic
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

I like James Lafond’s amateur work. Little rough around the edges at times but at least he is not an obvious liar.

Mr. Generic
Mr. Generic
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

If all you want to do is research, you don’t need a billion-dollar campus complete with residential space for tens of thousands of students, hundreds of classrooms, modern stadiums, fitness centers, dining facilities, office buildings, etc. What’s to stop private groups from setting up foundations or institutes with small overhead but just enough donations to fund the hiring of a professional researcher or two?

Technojunkie
Technojunkie
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

The FIRE people have the solution. Make your money, spend below your means, then when you have “enough” do whatever you want. Work the trades or IT for 10-15 years and if you’re smart enough to be a “gentleman scholar” you’ll probably succeed at financing the lifestyle. If you skip the big traps of tuition, excessive housing and new cars you can get far fast. Skip the trap of expensive health care by following the near opposite of government nutrition guidelines. The stock market has given this strategy a serious tailwind though that may be coming to an end. Still,… Read more »

Lettie
Lettie
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

J.S. Bach didn’t attend university and never made $ for his compositions. He wasn’t popular and was passed over for cushier jobs. Worked for municipalities/ churches his whole career to support his family. At one point had to write a cantata a week for 6 years!! Ruined his eyesight copying scores by candlelight to get the music into his head. Of course, a Bach doesn’t come around every century or two. The gentlemen amateur will, as ZMan likes to say, “suffer for his art.”

Montefrío
Member
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

In times gone by, gentleman amatuers usually financed themselves. Christopher Dawkins comes to mind in the field of European history, as does on a less “academic” level, Hilaire Belloc. The former was independently well-to-do, the latter often two steps from the poor house, but they had dedication.

Ostei Kozelskii
Member
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

Another problem is that the vast majority of publishing houses are controlled by the Left. Interesting historical work–and in other soc sci/humanities fields–is likely to confound the anti-white narrative mandated by the Power Structure and its disseminators of propaganda. Consequently, it is difficult to get interesting work published. Not impossible, but deucedly difficult.

trumpton
trumpton
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

That’s weird because Gentleman amateurs of independent means created practically every academic discipline foundation.

Seems spending their own money on research did not lead to the same cancerous outcome?

Montefrío
Member
Reply to  trumpton
2 years ago

Hadn’t seen your comment before posting. Nice to see someone on the same page!

Member
2 years ago

There might be departments axed but it won’t be frivolous fields, more likely it will be sciences or business. Cutting gender studies would cause a campus meltdown.

Severian
Reply to  Arthur Sido
2 years ago

Yep. Speaking from long experience: they’ll eliminate STEM entirely before touching Grievance Studies. For them it’s a twofer – show how virtuous they are, and eliminate the last few straight White men on the payroll.

Outdoorspro
Outdoorspro
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

The people who work in STEM have the ability to find meaningful work outside the academy. Maybe not doing what they trained for, but a demonstrated ability to solve complex problems is a useful skill in itself. The humanities people, on the other hand, have no marketable skill set and can only find well-paying work in the academy.

This is why Severian is correct, even if they didn’t already run the universities, they would make the environment so toxic that those who can leave, will.

karl von hungus
karl von hungus
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

then their disintegration will accelerate. people are not going to pay tuition for a degree, if they know the degree will not earn them more $$. a new system of learning is already in place and growing; re: Khan Academy et als. all the fleas in academy will have to find a new dog to feed on.

Marko
Marko
Reply to  Arthur Sido
2 years ago

If universities’ coffers are being driven by foreign students (and they often are), and foreign students don’t tend to major in grievances, I don’t see STEM as anywhere near the chopping block.

Severian
Reply to  Marko
2 years ago

Ahhh, but comrade, that’s just your bourgeois objectivism speaking. Never forget: These people are pretty dim to begin with, and ideology has cretinized them. They’ve been trying to kill sporstball for decades, despite that being the only thing that keeps them afloat (some Harvard b-school guys did a study, and it turns out that your school appearing in a bowl game boosts enrollment something like 10% the next school year, may God help us all). To them, that’s a feature not a bug — you get to eliminate the last of the straight White males, plus teach the Yellow Peril… Read more »

Mr. Generic
Mr. Generic
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

I think you’re both right. Most schools are hopelessly dependent on foreign STEM students financially, but they are also dependent on the sportsball for money, marketing, and (most importantly) the one program on campus that disproportionally benefits black and “disadvantaged” students. They are stuck. My guess is they try first for a federal bailout but, failing that, it’s time to break out the popcorn and see where this goes.

China dude
China dude
Reply to  Severian
2 years ago

I saw the same trend happening with Chinese students until recent large scale changes.

Even with evergrande tanking and construction halted everywhere, you still have a large chunk of a billion people who got fat off the easy money and immense gains that are looking to escape the blue collar blues as much as possible.

Forever Templar
Forever Templar
Reply to  Arthur Sido
2 years ago

Easy. Just don’t take money from people you don’t like and/or trust. To some extent people like Ed Dutton already do this with superchats. Stefan Molyneux, before he started blowing gaskets at 1$ donations, did it with a donation model. It’s not like this isn’t experienced with taking money from people who want to be here.

Apex Predator
Apex Predator
Reply to  Arthur Sido
2 years ago

You stole my post so I’ll put my 2 cents here– ” Colleges will be forced to cut costs and the low hanging fruit is the nonsense studies. It is not hard to imagine a university system riffing entire departments. We may be seeing the peak of bourgeois decadence in higher education.” As soon as I read that I was thinking- “well there goes the hard sciences, STEM, etc.” Like all good religious zealots and ideologues these spiteful mutants will pull the pillars down around themselves collapsing the entire edifice long before they give up on their death cult. They… Read more »

Barnard
Barnard
Reply to  Arthur Sido
2 years ago

If the frivolous fields aren’t producing donors or bringing in some other form of revenue eventually they will be cut. Most business departments have a lot of students, so they are more likely to try to make them woke business departments to prepare cubicle drones for globohomo than cut those departments.