Atilla Mert Sulker: "Colleges have become feel-good consortiums of the insecure"

College has become an embedded element in the rhythm of the American way of life. Society at large acts like everyone must go to college. Put bluntly, there are plenty of nimrods I see every day, who’d be far better off going to trade school or something of that nature.

I see college as a “choose your adventure” with two choices: 1.) Go to college to become well versed in a skill that you want to leverage (what I am doing via studying engineering); 2.) Go to college to go after an academic career, in which you pursue the truth – above all other things – and do so via rigorous and unabashed debate.

But we don’t see rigorous and unabashed debate anymore. The fact that so many people have forgotten the place of the American college in the societal fabric, as described earlier, has led to an indifference that has allowed one side to seize the debate stage. Its consequences have been catastrophic. Colleges have become feel-good consortiums of the insecure.

~ Atilla Mert Sulker, "In Defense of Walter Block - Bulwark Against Leftist Academic Takeover," LewRockwell.com, June 29, 2020