Victor Davis Hanson: “Can the Current Universities Be Saved?”

May 2, 2024

 

I have long admired military historian Victor Davis Hanson, and consider him a human treasure, one of the world’s foremost “public intellectuals,” his wisdom, gleaned from full and detailed consideration of subjects in the public eye unparalleled. Thus so here, his assessment of the current state of “higher education,” which I post on the day before graduation ceremonies in the college town in which I live, Bloomington, IN.

At the supermarket this afternoon, seeing all the students, many with parents, likely about to head off to parties, or dinner out, or backyard grilling, in the back of my mind, the usual little worm digs its way in. Is college worth it? Maybe it used to be worth it? But now? Victor Davis Hanson spells it all out.

(One caveat, however: Soon after the October 7 false flag, I was shocked to realize that Hanson had actually — reflexively? — taken sides in the Israel/Palestine imbroglio! Of all people, how could Hanson not see the current, intensely complex situation in deeply historical terms? How could he just instantly side with one of the players, Israel, in this latest iteration of humanity’s deadliest zero sum game? I haven’t kept up with his thinking on that drama since then, however.)

 

Can the Current Universities Be Saved?

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ALT-EPISTEMOLOGY: My (psy-opian) View from Afar of Current Protest (and other) Movement

May 1, 2024

 

(See three previous posts, re: Indiana University encampment.)

As I watch the current protest movement proceed I can’t help but wonder, as usual, if it’s “just another psy-op” — designed and fueled by Soros (and WEF, NWO, etc. etc.)

And of course, my wondering doesn’t end there. Feverishly now: Is Soros (and WEF, NWO) “handled” by some being or force higher on the Pyramid of Control? What “pyramid of control”? Does “it” really have a broad bottom? A pointy top? If so, who or what built it? What does it point to? What if . . . on and on . . .

In other words, I can’t help but “connect dots” in some way. I seek patterns, like all conscious humans. And at 81 years old, living inside an awareness larger than and including ego since I was 26 years old and almost died, and instead awakened, the patterns I’ve sought to”make sense of,” given ongoing craziness, have at times, in hindsight, proven “true,” and other times, decidedly “false.” More often, their epistemological status remains murky. What’s my batting average? I have no idea.

Furthermore, I feel now, that my biggest epistemological “mistake,” all along, has been to (desperately) seek meaning in patterns. Rather, I’d say now, at 81 yers of age, may I remind myself to simply enjoy the presence within which I dwell, inside this aging human female body, infused with kaleidoscoping mood and memory, bathed continuously with sensation — now, in spring, especially!

— with birds, flowers, leaves, breezes, all calling, calling me, calling all creation

— to rise and shine!

This “presence,” when I manage to ignore/let go of my pattern-seeking left brain, extends in, and out — to infinity.

This. This presence: SOVEREIGN SOUL, AT ONE WITH ALL.

But if I can’t be sure of any particular pattern — here comes the left brain again — then how about just enjoying the seeking of hidden clues to what patterns may exist, both those that seem to indicate divine synchronicities, and those concocted by nefarious human (and other?) beings. For I assume both positive and negative psy-ops (psychological operations) exist.

Ole Dammegard, for one, is an expert in sniffing out hidden clues to possible negative psy-ops. He just points to the clues, and doesn’t ever declare, for certain, that this or that happened and why. On the other hand, he does seem to have “prophesized” many events that actually did “come true,” and others that were stopped in their tracks, thanks, possibly, to his sleuthing.

Check out his website: lightonconspiracies.com