The Modern Potemkin City Skyline

In the current mire of the political process every piece and scrap of the ineffectual concept of “what matters” is tossed into the media mediums like a metaphysical Safari Supper, latching on to the already American Idol and Reality TV burdened minds of the superficial proletariat; the dying essence of our country hanging on the whim of the rusting metal hinges formally known as bipartisanship. The average citizen is devoid the requisite “informed citizenry” clause of the defining document of our Republic, and as an inevitable response we are left with conflicting and opposing ideologies vying for the scraps of a large ignorant horde of people whose collective power is the abiding spirit of mob rule. To this, there is no answer. So much complexity on something that should exist in harmony. A revisionist history of this country is nearly complete, and the corruption of the concept of Natural Rights is quickly becoming the final fiat that will sink the ship, and anchor her to a stifling regression from which she may never return. A rotting hegemony, wrung dry of any reason, fast centrifuging towards the extremes, the country’s blood is being separated and we are but a few elections from thralldom.

I am a man lacking in tempered responses to dire situations. I also lack knowledge of how to weave a basket underwater. Very few things come to the point of mortification than that of the destruction of higher education. The place most responsible for protecting this country from radical extremism is first to fall victim to it. I ask this, if a degree in Coaching is a Mickey Mouse degree, what do we have left to call a degree from Liberty University?

There needs to be a new term. There are hundreds of unrecognized accreditation mills in this country, and they are in return giving “accreditation” to joke schools with the approbation of the Bush Administration and Congress, as if it were the job of the Federal Government to decide what should be accepted in Academia. This is beyond madness, beyond transcending insanity, and beyond putrescence. This is ass.

This does not just pertain to organizations like the American Accrediting Association of Theological Institutions, American Association of Bible Colleges, and the World Online Education Accrediting Commission, all battling in a tight race for most absurd and ridiculous organizations on the planet, no no no, this also includes Department of Education toilet bowl floaters. The golden turds of worthless creditors. This includes the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and The Association for Biblical Higher Education.

This country continues to revere ignorance. If a University in its mission statement excludes, as a badge of honor, basic science principles, why on Earth do we honor anything produced by that school, students included? These Universities do not believe in academic freedom. They do not believe in a battlefield for social and cultural ideas. They believe in one way of life only, and that this way ought to be honored to the highest degree in a system that was meant to reward higher education standards.

How long before we have completely revised science and history? With the combination of Frank Luntz-like punditry and degree-mill universities, why do people even ask why this country is getting dumber?

This is your list of the top ten things literally destroying this country:

1. Science education is confused with philosophy. Philosophy no longer rejects false logic and claims. Teaching that a “theory” is just a conjecture, a bit of possible explanation that has no backing, that Global Warming and Evolution is debatable.
2. Home-schooling. One person or group of a very specific one-minded world view can better teach a person over hundreds of teachers with varying degrees and expertise.
3. Fox News, in order to combat perceived liberal bias, has created an actual bias divide between once honorable media outlets. Tabloid news as legitimate. Highly biased conservative spin. The Banner. O’Reilly. Hannity.
4. Federalist controlled judicial system. They have fought to get power in the courts, and they have. Congratulations America, you are no longer free.
5. Push polling, loaded questions, loaded spam, loaded hoax emails.
6. Liberals not voting and “liberal”, the belief in limited government and maximized social freedom, as a bad word.
7. Talk radio monopoly. Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and Sean Hannity, unlettered and uninformed loud-mouths with nothing to add to the debate except one-liners on perceived ideologies that don’t promote a fascist state.
8. The revision of history, including false quote mining and poor sourcing. Examples include the belief that this was a Christian Nation and was founded as such…
9. Out of control powerful executive branch. Powerful corporatism, free market allowance of pure monopolies, lobbyist and fear politics to manufacture votes. War powers, and the breach of the separation of church and state.
10. Last, but most important, the inexcusably uninformed citizenry and social conservatism.