Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Frustration...and Obfuscation

I now learn that, though I may be able to read Latin or Classical Greek, and speak four languages....If I DO NOT AGREE with Noam Chomsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and / or Ward Churchill, I am probably "a Cultural Incompetent".

This is the newest catch phrase in Academia. It joins "multiculturalism", "affirmative-action" and "gender sensitivity" as the newest pattie in the pasture of political correctness, a la’ Academe.

I don’t know whether we can stand another one. But, sensing that there is no bitter sting in the language that has guided the etymological abortions of the past two decades, the tenured tyrants of the towers of Ivy and Ivory are sneaking up again.

Now, it is not enough to be schooled, widely published, logical and *-(gasp)-* POPULAR!!!!

From this day hence, one must be "culturally competent".

Roughly translated, that means: "WE HOLD A MAJORITY ON THE FACULTY COMMITTEE AND WE DECIDE WHAT YOU WILL T H I N K !!!!

That is to say "WHAT YOU MUST BELIEVE" to survive in a college or university community.

They already do it in the newsrooms at most TV and newspapers. Mike Wallace’s son, Cris Wallace let the cat out of the bag last week when he branded the "mainstream media bias "Astonishing".

Well, despite their sneaky little linguistic tricks, and their suppression of the good news in favor of the bad, the fright and the doom, they are losing.

That’s why they have to come up with a new phrase to hide their wickedness every now and then. I can coin some phrases for what the left is trying to do.

Cultural Blackmail. Intellectual extortion. Evil Elitism.

Do I smell the rot of mouldering, dead ideas not nurtured, desiccated ?