Harvard Breeds Idiots
I haven't been this frustrated with academia in a long time. An industrious Harvard student has created a cleaning service dubbed Dormaid, and the Crimson is pissed.
The Crimson argues that Dormaid has "divisive implications." It fears a situation where one student might want to subscribe to Dormaid while his roommate can't afford it.
Horrors!
This kind of idiocy needs not explanation, I feel like I'm whipping a dead horse here, but there's a reason I'm writing about it: this is how liberals want to handle every disparity in life.
There will always be haves and have-nots (especially with liberals in power), but the answer is not to take away those things that people may have or not have. You don't level the playing field by chopping everyone off at the knees; you do it through development, hard work and patience.
Liberal sociology often preaches the impossibility of Utopia for fear of some kind of brown shirt resurgence from the right. The real problem with Utopia is that it's subjective: one person's idea of Utopia is different from another's. The word is a synonym for "oppression," and modern leftists are its champion.
Most colleges believe they can create Utopia on-campus, but as hard as they try to re-engineer this society, it is what it is. The mentality of a person who wants to take away a service because everyone can't afford it is so dangerous that it's hard to believe this ideology is fostered at America's elite schools.
The Crimson argues that Dormaid has "divisive implications." It fears a situation where one student might want to subscribe to Dormaid while his roommate can't afford it.
Horrors!
This kind of idiocy needs not explanation, I feel like I'm whipping a dead horse here, but there's a reason I'm writing about it: this is how liberals want to handle every disparity in life.
There will always be haves and have-nots (especially with liberals in power), but the answer is not to take away those things that people may have or not have. You don't level the playing field by chopping everyone off at the knees; you do it through development, hard work and patience.
Liberal sociology often preaches the impossibility of Utopia for fear of some kind of brown shirt resurgence from the right. The real problem with Utopia is that it's subjective: one person's idea of Utopia is different from another's. The word is a synonym for "oppression," and modern leftists are its champion.
Most colleges believe they can create Utopia on-campus, but as hard as they try to re-engineer this society, it is what it is. The mentality of a person who wants to take away a service because everyone can't afford it is so dangerous that it's hard to believe this ideology is fostered at America's elite schools.
2 Comments:
I agree with you that Harvard has no place telling a student not to run such a service, nor is there really a good reason to criticize the service. Speaking from my own experience, Penn Student Services (an official brance of the school) offered laundry service for something like $200 a semester, and I knew plenty of kids who used it. Did I think it was unfair they could afford to have someone else wash their clothes? Yeah. But I certainly thought it was more unfair that they got to go to Andover and Dalton. Elite schools have bigger class division fish to fry than a cleaning service.
On a more abstract note, it also strikes me that the right often preaches the impossibility of Utopia for fear of a Soviet insurgence from the left.
By Tim McGuire, At 6:25 PM EST
I think you see that from the right to an extent, but I think that the fear (speaking personally) is less the Soviet union or communism as it is socialism.
At least level headed people on the right. I suppose level headed people on the left probably really think the right will take the country to some less extreme place than Hitlerism, but I also feel the reaction is a little more emotional from the left.
By Ben Polidore, At 5:41 PM EST
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