It Can Happen Here. And It’s Happening Now.

February 24, 2020 – 11:29 pm

Here’s a chilling item from Rod Dreher about the green shoots of totalitarianism now rising in our academies. How we arrived at this place — how this became possible, and what led to its becoming actual at our specific point in history — is an important question about the great cycles of human societies. But we are here, now.

Posted by Malcolm on at 11:29 pm, filed under Society and Culture. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

2 Comments

  1. awildgoose says

    Thank you for the good read.

    I agree that this phenomenon is appearing everywhere, including online.

    It is amazing to me how snowflakes will immediately internalize and personalize general comments that are clearly meant to be hyperbole.

    Posted February 25, 2020 at 11:51 am | Permalink
  2. bomag says

    …the green shoots of totalitarianism now rising in our academies

    The place is pretty much wooded-in.

    The “young academics” in the linked article see themselves as soldiers off to do battle against a grievous enemy. Maybe, in later years, they will reflect on the damage they’ve done. Or maybe they will descend more completely into their suicide missions.

    Posted February 26, 2020 at 10:21 pm | Permalink

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