Links 4/9/2021 | naked capitalism
PlutoniumKun: And there’s more! Wow. Wow. I’ll admit that I am a Maroon, although back during its Minoan period, when I majored in Linear B and the Art of Incisions. The Woke Meritocracy is a kind of horror show of what it means to be an undergrad now. In the middle of the essay, author Blake Smith notes two things that indicate a kind of perpetual childhood: First, the parents are the helicopter parents, smothering the child. Second, his students don’t read for pleasure. This means that they are “performing” being adults by constantly referring to manufactured identities.
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