The title answers itself, does it not? The seed is there, I mean. A thoroughly masculine word, seed, and therefore inappropriate for today’s discussion. Egg, then. The egg is there.
Interestingly, eggs unseeded are only useful to make omelets. So let’s break some eggs. (Wow, to think you can read these twisted metaphors for free!)
Here’s a list of colleges and universities that still mandate healthy students assuage the fears of effeminate administrators and professors (from this site):
The complete list is on line. My graduate school, Cornell, never tiring of embarrassing itself, dropped theirs only at the end of this May.
I’m somewhat pleased that my alma mater, Central Michigan University, never had a mandate. The local chapter of the Cult of Safety First! there did, however, insist the kiddies strap useless plastic cloths on their faces for a long period. And they made the unvexed kids do useless weekly testing to harass them into getting vaxed. Many frightened professors and administrators there, too.
The No Mandates group maintains a separate list of schools that never required the vax. Not a small proportion of these have the note “Accepts NO federal money”. It’s also no surprise that a great many of colleges on this list are Christian. This is a group of people, in this country, in which you can still find both men and women of courage. Rare, rare.
Harvard, Ground Zero of toxic academia, still has a mandate. Why?
The anticlimactic answer—sorry, friends, no deep analysis today—is that they are the center of toxic academia. They have the most Experts. This means two things.
The first is that you must never forget that Expert calls to Expert. Experts never question Experts in other fields, except over trivia. To question an Expert is to be a denier. Academic Experts, when they consider questioning another Expert, have a terrible fear of being ostracized. But mostly they don’t think of questioning other Experts.
Incidentally, I wonder how many academic Experts would rather choose suicide than have her colleagues call her (of course it’s her) a denier?
Harvard therefore, at the pinnacle, must hold onto Expert pronouncements about the miracle of masks and vaxes. It doesn’t matter whether the Experts are theirs, i.e. Harvard’s, or they are from elsewhere in high toxic academia, or even from the government itself. We saw last week that the White House still requires vaxes and masks for the unvaxed. Harvard can let go when the White House does. But the White House looks to Harvard, since the people who staff the WH want to be thought of as intelligent.
It’s okay to laugh.
The second reason is toxic academia. From toxic femininity, and the predominance of females on campus. Which gave rise to the Cult of Safety First! The old joke, which I’ve told many times, was that a sweater is an article of clothing a child puts on when the mother gets cold. Which makes a mask an article of clothing a student straps on when the professor quivers at propagandistic phantasms.
Toxic academia is the longhouse which award degrees.
Credentialed women at these places, and the effeminate men they surround themselves with (the oldest real men are retiring or have retired), are frightened of everything. They grieve over everything. They rail against any hint of inequality, which they define as when they or their friends do not have more of some desirable thing.
I recall in the midst of the panic one soy boy prof who shrieked like a girl seeing a dead battery on her phone that two of his students, sitting away in the nosebleed section of some large auditorium, were not wearing masks. He was sure he was a goner because of those two boys’ act of terrorism.
Then there was the woman professor who accused one her students of—wait for it…wait for it—“racism” because he would not wear a masks.
Then the prof who made the student remove a mask because the mask had a pro police message on it. Rays of fascism shooting out from the mask killed the coronadoom, I guess.
A few of a legion of such stories.
College is now the best place to learn to be afraid. Of everything.
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Chesterton, in arguing against women's suffrage, pointed out that while men are used to negotiating power relationships and being forced to respect the space of peers due to the threat of mutual violence, women in the sphere of home life traditionally exercised an unlimited authority upon dependent inferiors. He predicted that if women were enfranchised, their ingrained autocratic tendencies would result in a massively expanded and intrusive state that sought to control every aspect of life in the name of health, safety, and security. As P.J. O'Rourke put it: "It takes a village to raise a child. The government is the village. You're the child."
Obviously Chesterton's predictions were completely off-base and nothing of the sort came to pass, but just imagine a society in which women not only run institutions like nurseries, but co-opt and weaponize the male urge to protect to inflict actual harm on those who oppose them. Something for a sci-fi horror movie! I'm glad feminism was a great success and we all still enjoy the freedoms of our ancestors with the benefits of great women leaders like Angela Merkel and Rachel Levine.
I grew up in West Virginia, almost heaven still but then free of experts except mining engineers, liquor distillers, Medicaid fraudsters, and "honey dippers" (don't ask.) Soon after entering college, when I returned home for a weekend visit, a neighbor asked what was I studying in college. I replied that I was "majoring in political science." The neighbor became curious as to what was this new kind of science and who were its experts and what they did to make money. He asked, "What does that science teach you to do to earn a living?"
I had no idea how to answer, but I did get my first glimpse into the conundrum of expertise, the spending of money and time learning something which can't easily be explained as economically productive and directly contributing to one's financial well-being. Maybe I was doing something dumb with my parents' money and my time.
I told my neighbor that political science was expertise in how to be President of the United States and that I intended to become an expert in four years, then become President one day.