“Everyone knows about capitalism’s successes; we need to spare a little attention for its failures too. The US university is one big one. Everyone knows that elite US universities occupy the wacko left of the ideological spectrum. Because they run the ed schools, they’ve gradually turned the public schools into wacko-left institutions also, where children learn every day about all the awful things (aand none of the good ones)the US, western civilization, amd white men in general have foisted off on the world. Why does it work this way? In part because humanities and social science professors are paid approximately nothing. They’ve always earned less than their accountants, but nowadays I’ll bet they make an order of magnitude less. Why shouldn’t US humanities professors hate this country and hate capitalism when their mediocre-ist students routinely get rich while their professors can’t even pay their damned bills?” –David Gelernter, conservative Republican professor of computer science at Yale, giving his critique of capitalism
Hilarious rant that can be summed up as Capitalism’s successes = everything I agree with, Capitalism’s failures = everything I disagree with.
Also noted are the simplistic notions such as “Everyone knows that elite US universities occupy the wacko left of the ideological spectrum.”
“Everyone knows” can be disproved by one counterexample.
And what is the “wacko left of the ideological spectrum?”
This kind of crude analysis gives a bad name to those on the right of the political spectrum.