Modern history has shown that the most effective antidote to the toxic disease of governmental repression and totalitarian rule is the existential endurance of independent, rational thought. The signature goal of higher education is the relevant promotion and advancement of individualized thought and its consequential goal, humanistic enlightenment; the latter, eternally constituting the singularly effective prophylaxis against totalitarianism.
Contextually, the Trump administration has perversely presented the notably identifiable symptoms of the malignant recurrence of virulent, diagnosable fascism. The latest tactic of its deceitful misrepresentation of the salutory, democratic word, “diversity,” has been to further transmogrify and toxicly metastasize to a fallacious, discreditable, and un-American accusation, those whose identifiable symptoms evince disagreement with MAGA agitprop.
It may not be necessary to comment on the blatently undemocratic, and inarguably unconstitutional nature of such egregious misuse of power, whose ambient odor is unavoidably noxious and repulsive; however, much insight to the procedural chess game is garnered from such overtly tactical efforts to “sanitize” education and its successfully traditional end product, individualized and mature perceptive.
For those who, conceivably, lack the requisite insight, we would contextual;lly declare, that the inculcation of authoritarian governance is existentially nourished and husbanded by an uninformed, inadequately educated, and myopic public; the latter being compliant, pliant, and malleable “sillyputty” in the egregious hands of totalitarian malefactors. A relevantly reprised admonition of Thomas Jefferson, to the effect that democratic government can only succeed if a Nation evinces literate and informed citizenry, has a particularly bright resonance in this context, (in addition to that as intended, viz., good governance.)
Trump’s egregious efforts to control university education irrefutably seek to apply the foul, heinous, and pungent”fertilizer” upon which the repulsive and indigestible stalks of fascism existentially feed and nocturnally thrive.
As any informed citizen is aware, the foul emergence of a tyrannical government can only be born and thrive in a venue evincing the noxious swamp of citizen ignorance and disinterest; the latter domicile. Inarguably, the preferred venue of Trump and his MAGA lemmings, but not the rationally chosen homestead of the educated and informed citizen.
Wisdom, derived from an uncensored liberal education, provides the fundamental underpinnings of an enduring democratic Nation and effectively constitutes the eternally effective prophylactic against autocracy.
It is encouraging to observe the recent growth of rejection of such tactics of , “cleansing,” predictably languishing in their present stages of public rejection and its predictable, historically appropriate mortality.
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