VII: How the Clergy Rule
The doctrine had acquired its infectious form already by 1965, when the Harvard sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan presented to President Lyndon Johnson a report about the state of the black population of America. In it, he candidly diagnosed the "tangle of pathology" in African-American culture--all the decay stemming from welfarism and family breakdown. He argued that racism was a secondary phenomenon to this "culture of poverty", and called for government action.
Having made the mistake of putting this in writing in a Presidential report, Moynihan soon found his neomarxist colleagues at Harvard turning against him, and lobbing spell-words ("racism!") at him. The precedent for endless capitulations to come was set when Moynihan's sane colleagues failed to muster the courage to stand up against the fanatics. Eventually, his research simply ceased to be funded, and his career was over. A warning to many others.
Purges and intimidation, double standards in funding and peer-review--this is how the Clergy monopolized entire disciplines: Sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and so on.
Nowadays, in the era of its uncontested ascendancy, the mechanics of power are more subtle. All you need is a slight hint to your graduate students that certain lines of inquiry are simply inadvisable. Incorrigible nonconformists stay away from the most compromised fields; they go into the natural sciences, or they simply quit academia as the cult spreads. Even so, there are still extreme episodes. Mike Adams, professor of Criminology at UNC, had the nerve of openly committing apostasy. His colleagues denied him tenure. He sued them for discrimination, and won after a 7-year court battle that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Subjected to hysterical mobbing by thousands of academics and students (so wont to denounce "hate" in others), he was forced to retire, and eventually committed suicide--to much gloating from the compassionate ones.
Such massive bodies of made-up "scholarship" have been produced by now, that genuine contrary findings in matters of sacred doctrine (anything undermining the dogma of universal equality) could not be published even if someone dared to try.
And when, miraculously, heretical papers do manage to get past hostile peer-reviewers, this is what happens:
Having made the mistake of putting this in writing in a Presidential report, Moynihan soon found his neomarxist colleagues at Harvard turning against him, and lobbing spell-words ("racism!") at him. The precedent for endless capitulations to come was set when Moynihan's sane colleagues failed to muster the courage to stand up against the fanatics. Eventually, his research simply ceased to be funded, and his career was over. A warning to many others.
Purges and intimidation, double standards in funding and peer-review--this is how the Clergy monopolized entire disciplines: Sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and so on.
Nowadays, in the era of its uncontested ascendancy, the mechanics of power are more subtle. All you need is a slight hint to your graduate students that certain lines of inquiry are simply inadvisable. Incorrigible nonconformists stay away from the most compromised fields; they go into the natural sciences, or they simply quit academia as the cult spreads. Even so, there are still extreme episodes. Mike Adams, professor of Criminology at UNC, had the nerve of openly committing apostasy. His colleagues denied him tenure. He sued them for discrimination, and won after a 7-year court battle that cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Subjected to hysterical mobbing by thousands of academics and students (so wont to denounce "hate" in others), he was forced to retire, and eventually committed suicide--to much gloating from the compassionate ones.
Such massive bodies of made-up "scholarship" have been produced by now, that genuine contrary findings in matters of sacred doctrine (anything undermining the dogma of universal equality) could not be published even if someone dared to try.
And when, miraculously, heretical papers do manage to get past hostile peer-reviewers, this is what happens:
Bruce Gilley’s article, “The Case for Colonialism,” went through double blind peer review and was published in Third World Quarterly in 2017. It provoked enormous controversy and generated two separate petitions signed by thousands of academics demanding that it be retracted, that TWQ apologize, and that the editor or editors responsible for its publication be dismissed. Fifteen members of the journal’s thirty-four-member editorial board also resigned in protest.
But serious threats of violence against the editor led the journal to withdraw the article, both in print and online. Gilley was also personally and professionally attacked and received credible death threats.
[The paper, incidentally, made the formerly uncontroversial point that most episodes of European colonialism had a net positive impact on the colonized, in terms of governance and living standards (as the people of Hong Kong never cease to remind us)]
Take a moment to dwell on the fact that the "experts" coming out of this sewer claim the right to rule because they claim voters are too stupid to understand their own interests. (They are anti-intellectual, you see)
Take a moment to dwell on the fact that the "experts" coming out of this sewer claim the right to rule because they claim voters are too stupid to understand their own interests. (They are anti-intellectual, you see)
There is also rampant employment discrimination. Identifiable dissenters are simply not hired. Conversely, the believers flaunt their faith in order to snag posts. This is an actual cover letter used by a candidate for a postdoctoral position in English at the University of Arizona. Smack dab in the middle of interminable longueurs, we find this curious passage:
"The hope of Lemuria--likewise the hope for American literary studies--comes not from the continued repression of our history of genocide and colonialism, but from the full recognition of that inescapable past. Hope in the novel--and hope for the future of novel theory--appears in the vision that “this blessed ship is bound for some better shore, some undrowned Lemuria, risen and redeemed, where the American fate, mercifully, failed to transpire."
These sentences (about a mediocre book that no normal person will ever read) come out of nowhere, unbid and seemingly inexplicable--except, of course, as a profession of faith for the benefit of the Search Committee tasked with hiring the right candidate...
The reign of terror has extended in recent years to Science departments. Expressions of doubt, however timid, about neomarxist dogma are met with rage and bullying. This author, while still a graduate student, was bodily thrown out of an office for daring to question whether an Islamist woman was the best choice for leading a feminist movement.
The reign of terror has extended in recent years to Science departments. Expressions of doubt, however timid, about neomarxist dogma are met with rage and bullying. This author, while still a graduate student, was bodily thrown out of an office for daring to question whether an Islamist woman was the best choice for leading a feminist movement.
The rot of the institutions is total. Over the past 50 years, new generations of schoolteachers have been forged in "Schools of Education", so the indoctrination of the youth now starts in elementary school. Those who buy into the dogma and become nice little conformist lefties, have the chance to signal their orthodoxy to college admission officials, while deviants get the can.
Two researchers, Espenshade and Radford, looked at data from a national survey of more than 9000 applicants to elite colleges in the 1990s. They discovered a shrewd filtering mechanism based on students' extracurricular activities.
In the competitive private schools surveyed, participation in many types of extracurricular activities — including community service activities, performing arts activities, and "cultural diversity" activities — conferred a substantial improvement in an applicant’s chances of admission. The admissions advantage was usually greatest for those who held leadership positions or who received awards or honors associated with their activities.
But the shocking part was what Espenshade and Radford found in regard to what they call "career-oriented activities": Participation in such "traditionalist" activities as high school ROTC, 4-H clubs, or the Future Farmers of America was found to reduce very substantially a student’s chances of gaining admission to the elite colleges , all other things being equal. The admissions disadvantage was greatest for those in leadership positions in these activities or those winning honors and awards… Excelling in these activities “is associated with 60% to 65% lower odds of admission".
This is extraordinarily flagrant, like catching the Clergy in the act of molesting the altar boy. Ideological undesirables from "Middle America" are barred from elite universities (and hence from the nation's ruling class) at the root. This is how neomarxist ideology perpetuates itself among the elite.
Say what you will about the effects this is having on our society, bemoan, if you like, our approaching doom, but we must give credit where it is due: this is undoubtedly what maximum evolutionary fitness looks like. This is how fields like Sociology have achieved a 99% "liberal" faculty. This is how the "liberal" elites--these ubermenschen of towering IQ in the media, tech, government--came to be.
Two researchers, Espenshade and Radford, looked at data from a national survey of more than 9000 applicants to elite colleges in the 1990s. They discovered a shrewd filtering mechanism based on students' extracurricular activities.
In the competitive private schools surveyed, participation in many types of extracurricular activities — including community service activities, performing arts activities, and "cultural diversity" activities — conferred a substantial improvement in an applicant’s chances of admission. The admissions advantage was usually greatest for those who held leadership positions or who received awards or honors associated with their activities.
But the shocking part was what Espenshade and Radford found in regard to what they call "career-oriented activities": Participation in such "traditionalist" activities as high school ROTC, 4-H clubs, or the Future Farmers of America was found to reduce very substantially a student’s chances of gaining admission to the elite colleges , all other things being equal. The admissions disadvantage was greatest for those in leadership positions in these activities or those winning honors and awards… Excelling in these activities “is associated with 60% to 65% lower odds of admission".
This is extraordinarily flagrant, like catching the Clergy in the act of molesting the altar boy. Ideological undesirables from "Middle America" are barred from elite universities (and hence from the nation's ruling class) at the root. This is how neomarxist ideology perpetuates itself among the elite.
Say what you will about the effects this is having on our society, bemoan, if you like, our approaching doom, but we must give credit where it is due: this is undoubtedly what maximum evolutionary fitness looks like. This is how fields like Sociology have achieved a 99% "liberal" faculty. This is how the "liberal" elites--these ubermenschen of towering IQ in the media, tech, government--came to be.