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https://www.kunstler.com/p/higher-ed-bottoms-out

Harvard, apparently, can never learn. It has made itself the poster-child for all the failures of contemporary education, including the racketeering around endowments, government grant grifts, race and gender hustles, and intellectual surrender to ideas that would make medieval astrologasters burst out laughing.

Case in point: the university lately announced the hiring of a Boston-area drag-queen to teach a course in the spring semester of 2026 about the TV show known as Ru Paul’s Drag Race. The show features contestants vying for prizes and crowns based on “Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent” (C.U.N.T.). Get the picture? Reach into your Jungian psychology tool-bag. ...

Please understand: when you are watching drag-queens, you are not really seeing men posing as women. You are seeing men portraying women as monsters. ...

Harvard’s drag-queen du jour demonstrates all that nicely. Kareem Khubchandani, his legal name, is a professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at Tufts University. He also teaches “Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.” As a drag star, he goes by the stage-name LaWhore Vagistan. This is how he describes himself to the news media: “[M]y preferred pronouns are ‘she’ or ‘aunty.’ I chose ‘LaWhore’ because my family traces its origins to Pakistan: Lahore is an important city in Pakistan, and well, I’m a bit of a whore. And Vagistan because I see the subcontinent as one, big, beautiful Vag … istan.”

Of course, his fascination with female genitalia, of seeing a whole nation in that guise, is a bit odd considering that A) he is a homosexual performer who is ostensibly not attracted to female sexual characteristics and lacks experience with them, and B) he is a male of the species who does not possess such organs himself. Therefore, on what basis would he have gained so much knowledge of female genitalia and developed such a powerful obsession around them as to imagine the whole country of his ancestors that way? Possibly, it has something to do with mommy. . . something that made her appear. . . unforgettably monstrous. ...

Other questions do present, though. For instance, did Harvard’s President Alan Garber know about this hire and sign off on it, and how would he say it fits Harvard’s mission? Or Provost John Manning? Or Hopi E. Hoekstra, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences? Or Harvard’s Board of Governors?

All this underscores an important lesson that America has apparently managed to unlearn, something that we once knew quite well: that marginal behavior belongs on the margins, not in the center of our national life. The celebration of vulgarity for its own sake is arguably not the highest aspirational ideal for the best-and-the-brightest of our society, however amusing it might be in their hours of leisure, when people are free to pursue whatever lights their imaginations.

"Education" as it is currently practiced in the US is about obedience and conformity above all else.

One must sit down, shut up, and learn to regurgitate what one is taught. Questioning the teacher does not lead to "academic success".

The most "educated" are perforce the most obedient and the least questioning. Those blessed with critical thinking or an independent streak are ruthlessly eliminated to protect the power of "educational" institutions.

The apex of this system is Harvard. Doctors too are selected for obedience and conformity. This is how we ended up with nearly all doctors simply going along with the worst crime in human history, the mandates to inject dangerous and defective mRNA without question.

Doctors with all of the lengthy education and delayed gratification and debts are some of the most locked in to fearing the slightest threat to their licenses and status, so they conform to the dictates of the democidal protocols. I imagine they believe they are just following orders of higher established authorities in the medical field, and getting rich from conformity isn't hypocritical.

My internist at Kaiser (now retired, or fled, however you may choose to see it) apologized because his computer screen was telling him what to do and he had to do it: all that eduction and pride and work just to be controlled by the dictates of a computer screen bent towards profit.

The computer also gives the doctors the scripts for inducing fright if the patients are resistant to the 'advice' or protocols or vaccines or whatever, with 'studies'.

Speaking of doctors and politicians showing ritualized contempt for the populace and glorying in inflicted maiming and death. Some of the most audacious and murderous lethal lies 'for profit' one can imagine.:

https://rumble.com/v6ztori-pritzker-put-doc-on-tv-to-proclaim-vaccines-and-tylenol-dont-cause-autism.html

https://rumble.com/v6zti5o-autism-is-not-an-epidemic.-its-a-difference-in-how-the-brain-works..html