PLUTOCRATIC UNIVERSITIES Are NOT UNIVERSAL

When universities which are viewed as the best in the world, produce, most prominently not good and reason, but gold and evil, by fostering or organizing the plunder of entire countries, Earth has a serious problem. Consider this: “The Harvard Boys Do Russia.. “After seven years of economic “reform” financed by billions of dollars in U.S. and other Western aid, subsidized loans and rescheduled debt, the majority of Russian people find themselves worse off economically. The privatization drive… helped to create a system of tycoon capitalism run for the benefit of a corrupt political oligarchy that has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars of Western aid and plundered Russia’s wealth.

Essential to the implementation of (Russian Deputy Prime Minister) Chubais’s policies was the enthusiastic support of the Clinton Administration and its key representative for economic assistance in Moscow, the Harvard Institute for International Development. Using the prestige of Harvard’s name and connections in the Administration, H.I.I.D. officials acquired virtual carte blanche over the U.S. economic aid program to Russia, with minimal oversight by the government agencies involved. With this access and their close alliance with Chubais and his circle, they allegedly profited on the side. Yet few Americans are aware of H.I.I.D.’s role in Russian privatization, and its suspected misuse of taxpayers’ funds.”

One evening long ago, when his sons were in elementary school, US Senator Joe Biden was sitting around with old friends in a backyard in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware. He asked one of them where he planned to send his own child to college (aka first four years of university studies). The boy was just eight, one of the friends observed. Another pointed out that there were plenty of good universities.

“Lemme tell you guys something,” Mr Biden replied with sudden intensity, according to “What It Takes”, a 1992 book by Richard Ben Cramer . “There’s a river of power that flows through this country. Most people did not even know about this river, while others could only stand by its banks and gawk. But a few Americans, Mr Biden continued, “got to swim in the river of power their whole lives, and go wherever they wanted to. And that river”, Biden concluded, “flows from the Ivy League.” (The league of old universities, covered with ivy, led by Harvard chronologically, where old money and power send its youngsters; now complemented by the top West coast universities led by Berkeley, Stanford and UCLA)

Nietzsche thought that healthy human society, and individuals were motivated mostly by the “Will to Power“. Indeed, no power, no civilization. So the question is not to question power per se, but its exact nature.

Ethological studies on various advanced animals, including primates, confirm the importance of the Will to Power, indeed. No power, no survival. However, human power can be enormously destructive and can’t be directed against the species with too much gusto (otherwise the biosphere will disappear… as it is in the process of doing).

How does one exert power? One can use whips and chains, claws and fangs, but that’s a lot of work, it could be dangerous, against as dangerous an animal as the genus Homo, and all this physical violence damages the slaves.

Ultimately, raw physical violence exerted on most of its individuals makes a society underperform physiologically and intellectually relatively to a society where people believe they are are mostly free. A slave society, where slaves are in chains, is too preoccupied by brawn, the brutal force of physical constraints, thus not brains: it does not become very smart… And thus such a society gets walloped as more brainy societies get more advanced technologically from their higher smarts (including in crucial military technology).

Nietzsche pointed out that the masters of Europe enslaved the people they ruled over with the slave ideology of Christianism, to subdue their will to power… while they themselves didn’t believe in it (there is plenty of evidence of that, including the French Fabliaux, which Nietzsche was unaware of). Other civilization had their own enslaving ideologies, such as Hinduism and its caste system, Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, etc.

The best way for a class to exert maximal sustainable power in a society is thus not through whips, chains, and the police, but by controlling, and even shaping minds. Thus by controlling and shaping the educational system, thus mastering ideas, guiding emotions and dominant moods. This is more basic than just controlling the information space. And this is the essential nature of the US Deep State: it flows from the Ivy League.

IN LEADERS VERITAS: Harvard “Recruits”… Leaders, to lead the sheeple by the nose. Plutocratic Universities Are All About Generating “Leaders” To Lead The Sheep… The Same Exact Basic Ideology As Nazism (“Führerprinzip”).

The excellence of maximizing profits: Veritas! Forget universal thinking! Harvard with arrogant and revealing stupidity, self-describes in 2015 its fundamental mission, its true and fundamental “Veritas” as “Recruiting“, like an army recruits, the “Next Generation of Leaders“. While Harvard’s famous alumnus, Obama, is sitting in the White House…

Since when is “recruiting leaders” the way to search for truth? This is exactly what the Nazis claimed to be doing. Indeed, the Führerprinzip (“Leader Principle“), dear to Hitler, prescribed the fundamental basis of social organization under Nazism, as the hierarchy of leaders, and education was all about  recruiting these natutally born leaders (and shaping their minds).

The more democratic the society, the more spread-out is quality education. The more oligarchic the society, the less quality education is spread out… and the more important “leaders” get

As a US academic, I was asked to please be lenient with student athletes (they were failing scientific classes). When I complained about such inequities, I was promptly and efficiently blacklisted, no debate necessary.

Student athletics brings up to 80 million dollars a year to some US colleges (2015 dollars; through TV contracts; it’s highly profitable, as the athletes are not paid commensurately).

University tuition is now so high in the USA, even at (top) public universities, that the middle class cannot afford it (except by taking un-extinguishable loans). This is true even at institution such as the University of California which were founded with the explicit aim to provide free education to the most intellectually qualified students, independently of their wealth.

Even those who have taken loans have to be nice with the powers that be, if they want to earn enough to reimburse their loans. The chains they wear afterwards are not made of iron, but of debt.

We are in situation where financial class, and the positive attitude towards the wealthiest, rather than intellectual class, is becoming the selection criterion.

Too much control of the educational system by the powers that be brings the smarts down.

But the powers that be may require a more advanced educational system: this was the case during the Cold War. Or when the Frankish empire required all religious institutions to teach everybody secularly.

Money is a way to communicating power. Although it is not the only way: the law is the basic way to transmit power, and mandatory education is an obvious example.

Massimo said that “the whole system is corrupt”. A leading article in The Economist recently condemned the American university system, saying it was not worth it. It pointed out that employers care not so much about what students learn there, but about the fact they have been selected (to attend select college).

“American graduates score poorly in international numeracy and literacy rankings, and are slipping. In a recent study of academic achievement, 45% of American students made no gains in their first two years of university. Meanwhile, tuition fees have nearly doubled, in real terms, in 20 years. Student debt, at nearly $1.2 trillion, has surpassed credit-card debt and car loans.”

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21647285-more-and-more-money-being-spent-higher-education-too-little-known-about-whether-it?

The tremendous propaganda in the USA about issues which profit plutocracy has been made effective by the lack of education of the population.

Education is not just instruction, it can be submission.

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ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES:

European universities evolved from the Cathedral schools. The latter had been imposed in the Eight Century, by Frankish law, all over Europe. Professors were cleric.

This is why European universities have no police, to this day (they were cathedrals, initially).

However, by the late Twelfth Century, the faculty of art allowed some teachers to not be theologians (Buridan was an example).

The power of universities was enormous then. Abelard used his pulpit at the Paris Cathedral School to oppose the Second Crusade and Saint Bernard. (Abelard’s arguments lost, short term, but won, long term.)

When the University of Paris got its entire body out, it extended from one end of the capital to the other. A year long strike in 1200 CE forced the papacy to authorize the teaching of Aristotle.

By 1300 CE, supported by his English vassal, the king of France, cracked down on the Pope and his army, the Templars. Philippe IV Le Bel’s aides were commoners, highly educated youth without fortune or honorable pedigree.

American universities have a very different origin. Stanford, for example, was founded by a plutocrat who used Chinese workers (who had few rights), to build railways.

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USA MODEL; PLUTO FUNDS EDUCATION, THUS RULES MINDS:

There is a conscious bias, top down, in the USA against the existence of the CO2 crisis, the reality of evolution, and for the existence of the USA as a “Christian nation”.

The New York Times just discovered it in “A Christian Nation? Since When?” that it is plutocrats in the 1930s who invented the USA as a Christian nation.

Perspective: Islamophobia Is Not Racist

The denialist system of thought in the USA is mostly fed by money. “Climate change” is an example: it is clear that augmenting the greenhouse gases from 280 ppm to 450 ppm (including CO2 going from 280 to 400 ppm), can only have an extremely damaging effect… Especially considering half of the created CO2 goes in the ocean to make carbonic acid… And that last time we had 400 ppm of CO2 sea level was around 30 to 40 meters higher.

There is really no need for “expertise”, in a subject like that, to perceive the danger. Now California is suffering a drought more severe than any time during at least 3,000 years. And it is directly caused by climate change. Restrictions have just started (and are grossly insufficient).

The economy is the management (nomy) of the environment (eco). It does not have to be about “money”: successful empires (Inca, USSR) worked without money, or partly without money (the army and public works in Republican Rome come to mind).

It is clear that, to manage the environment well, one needs knowledge.

However, it all depends upon what is meant by “environment”. If it is about the wealthiest, the USA is becoming increasingly hospitable. And having a dysfunctional educational system helps, as confrontational critiques, which require a lot of certainty, cannot arise.

The USA’s university system is dysfunctional, intellectually speaking, but it is not an accident. It is a system. Just as the GI Bill (which made higher education free for GIs), was also a system. That system went the other way. It was paid for by a 93% tax on high income.

The USA’s university system is perfectly functional if its function is the pursuit of happiness of plutocracy.

Monothinking started deviously, with the so-called “French Theory” claim that all truth was tribal. Thus there was nothing such as THE truth. One may as well embrace Stalin, Castro, Mao… or US plutocracy… and its servant, Islamism. Ultimately it’s the tribe with most wealth, power, US plutocracy, which imposed its truths. So here we are. Welt aufwachen!

Patrice Ayme’

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