Wednesday, October 08, 2008

University Administrators As Counter-Enlightenment Reactionaries

Over at F.I.R.E, Robert Shibley makes a pretty convincing case that an increasing number of university administrators believe in the power of magic.

So tell me, what theory makes more sense than to suggest that...college administrators believe in magic? While I have never met any of them, there's no reason to believe that they are crazy. So how can you explain their utter rejection of context, facts, reality, and reason when it comes to uttering a single word, be it "wetbacks," "hate," or "fags?" For millennia, humans who are neither crazy nor stupid have believed that words or actions can have supernatural power. Maybe the folks at Brandeis, Gonzaga, and San Diego Mesa and City colleges have simply discovered some new incantations —syllables that cannot be pronounced under any circumstances without provoking dire results.

Really, modern universities are slowly becoming bureaucratic, Orwellian nightmares. It would be best for all involved if university administrators were humanely culled.

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