Bonus: Inside Higher Ed | Chapo Trap House
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
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We’re joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insider’s perspective of the current state of college administration, and a discussion of just why colleges and universities around the country are reacting with such extreme opposition and often violence to the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. Topics include increasingly corporate university structure, internal bias against certain perspectives and student organizing, and the foreign influence over university operations.
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This person speaks directly to one of the big problems with higher education: it's a real estate venture with a facade of education on the front. If we're going to have higher ed - and I'm beginning to agree with leftists like Keaton Weiss of Due Dissidence who hate higher education - it needs to be about education and not "business models". The point of college should be to learn.
Capitalism ruins everything it touches, and destroys anything that gets in in its way. The only thing that matters now is money. The USSR used to set the standard (Were the only people who stood for something other than money, and could back it up with military power), but ever since they disappeared, the rich have slowly been realizing they can go back to treating people like objects again. The importance of education and knowledge? pptttttttttthhhhhttttt. An honest day's hard work? pppppptttttttttthhhhhhttt. Doing the right thing? pppppttttttthhhhhtttttt. Helping your fellow man? ppppttttttttthhhhhttt. Respect for all labor, from the college professor or mayor, to the ice cream man or janitor? pppptttttthhhhhhhttttt. The only thing that matters now is money.
I mean really, it's been going in that direction since the 1960s, so probably something else going on, like the tax on the rich declining from 100% during WW2, to 30% today. Unionization dropping from above 40% post-WW2, to 11% today. The rich have been taking back control they lost during the New Deal era. We'll soon be back to having children losing their arms in machinery again. Already had news recently of children found working cleaning cutting-machinery in meat processing factories.
1960s was the age of "decolonization" and the transition to neocolonization. From Boots Bombs Bullets Barracks and Bayonets (traditional colonialism), to Banks Bonds Businesses Police and IMF Loans (neocolonialism). Post WW2, the US took over as colonizer of the 3rd World from Britain, which allowed the US to start to increase its standard of living above the USSR, which lead to the USSR being jealous of the US's living standards and to its eventual downfall. Once the US's (and therefore the rest of the West, which are just puppets of the US) living standard was higher than the USSR, the capitalists had "won" and were justified in going back to treating people like objects again. Especially after the USSR collapsed, and the further deindustrialization and financialization of the US economy during the 90s.
That's why it should be fucking free. Why is there a profit motive in fucking schools? I teach at a university, these days it is a race to the bottom to keep the kids (aka your customers) happy any way you can because they are your cash inflow, thanks to years of neoliberal management gutting government funding and professor protections like tenure.
Luke...I am your communications director.
I wish I could block you.
Paraphrasing the email my college's president sent after clearing the encampment: "We tried every possible avenue to come to an agreement with the protesters, except for accepting their demands because we obviously couldn't do that"
Props to Andre the Giant for blowing the whistle on this.
This comment made me laugh and got me yelled at in the office. Cheers.
@@carlosmonkus6Does your workplace punish laughing?
@@dirrdevil "You can watch RUclips just don't disturb your coworkers while they pick up your slack." - Management
Absolutly brilliant guest!
One of the most valuable Chapo Trap House episodes that I can remember.
So glad to hear that Elizabeth Holmes landed a new job... bringing those ethical lessons learned at Theranos to flak-catching for higher ed institutions.
Hear that kids?;
It's the system and everything that it encompasses that sucks...
That's right.
"Everything that it encompasses" Unfortunately it encompasses a lot of things we like too...
Frivolous treats. Grow up.@@charleswofford6296
Good Christ this is an incredibly valuable episode.
It's the devil from Smiling Friends lmao
Damn got that Dateline style, pitch shifted guy in the dark interview
He was in the basement making homemade ecstacy
wont hear this on NPR
This is how VICE used to interview Narcos 💀
The pdf file mafia is bigger than narcos
That is some quality content
Use to love this guy on Delocated.
Sounds like buffalo bill.
Sounds like the devil from smiling friends
Dark times but what an interview! Fantastic.
Every drug dealer that was interviewed by Vice.
This university employee sounds like he’s taking HGH.
Ah Oceiros the Consumed Communications Director
OCELOT!!!!!!!!!!
Oh snap, it's Monstroso!!
swear to god i thought this was gonna turn into e1 and it was gonna be revealed this was an orc
more journalism from will menaker.
Is this Stavros?
Breathing a little too easily
Dad, is that you?
Great interview!
Amazing 😮
Why does it take a day to upload this to RUclips? Good job by the way
Jake Flores worked at a university?
Lmao
I just want to learn
This guy's job shouldn't even exist. Why does every school need to have a full comms staff and issue statements on every goddamn issue around the world? Obviously this is a big issue, but like what is the purpose of having every school take a position on this and every other single issue there is
Optics is everything
I didn’t know Moltar worked at Columbia
Lol gotta love the modulated soy voice
Somehow the soy inflection still comes through lmao
Satanic upspeak😂
This is hard to listen to.
Why?
@@wingdingdmetrius8025The voice effect
@@ross4 Totally
buddy was probably making 80k a year to do whatever the hell “engaged listening” good on him for having morals but he might be a little dumb.
I’m 99% sure you could find someone to share this extremely basic information about US universities without needing to be “anonymous.”
Dude would never work in higher Ed again in his life
it's about legitimacy and first hand experience. I'm not fully disagreeing with what you're saying but this person's perspective is harder to dismiss as it is based on first hand experience rather than connecting the dots and desk reserch.
@@Enothrae That’s fair
He’s saying enough that the university system would retaliate against him. Sorry if a lot of it is banal and not spicy thriller movie stuff
This kind of thinking is how you get addicted to Q stuff, Lmao.
Not everything is Gladio
Boring, this sucks