But as the demand for degrees (not learning) grew and higher education became monetized, American universities became more akin to Renaissance Italian city-states than socially philanthropic organizations, metastasizing, gobbling up real estate and taking it off the tax rolls, thus helping to destroy the nearby neighborhoods — hello, Columbia, hello University of Chicago, hello University of Southern California! Ever-expanding, they added fashionable if not downright imaginary “disciplines” to the curriculum, abandoning all pretense to original scholarship, scrapped Western Civ courses as arbitrary and racist, and increasingly viewed their role as political activists instead of teachers.
Wholly conquered by the sappers of the Frankfurt School, they poisoned the minds of generation after generation with cultural self-contempt. The staggering financial concomitants beggared parents or sold their children into a form of indentured servitude known as “student loans,” justified on the grounds that their doctorate in LGBTQ+ Studies, aided in its attainment by heaping helpings of plagiarism and, latterly, AI monkeys, would surely put them on Easy Street, but instead it put them on Queer Street, where many remain today.
