The De-Humanization of the University

The modern university is a farce, a sham... a joke. The modern university is no longer a place where an individual can acquire the skills necessary to blossom within a society bordered by common law; for that common law has been eliminated and spread among multitudes of different peoples. The modern university no longer fosters the spirit of ingenuity, creativity, or growth. Instead, the modern university demands obedience to a set of structured rules and regulations. This is the experience of an Orphic Soldier.

Now, before I began attending "higher education" -- as some people call it --  I already had a profound lack of respect for it. My direct experience of it has only served to prove my prior evaluation as correct. This prior assumption being the belief that modern universities cannot teach anything of concrete value, and only serve as stepping stones to bigger and better institutions by way of the o so coveted scrap of paper.

This is not to say that universities have always been this useless. The university of old was a place where people went to learn, to debate, to argue. This is no longer so. In fact, the one who tries to argue is often met by so much resounding opposition, that the dissenting opinion itself has just served to ostracize the speaker. The very term "argument" has been so skewed and butchered, that to mention the word is to commit a great offense.

The institution no longer wants to hear its students own arguments, but instead wishes to hear that of a piecemeal side dish "discussion," paired with the main course of a "peer reviewed" paper. Yes. Universities no longer wish to foster the spirit that all men are created equal, that all sound arguments should be taken seriously.

No, the only argument that matters is one that argues little. Instead of the argument supporting itself, it should be supported by the words of a filtered and peer reviewed paper. A paper that has been soaked and wrung in the juices of a culture so worried about not offending, and fitting the narrative that it actively suppresses itself by way of demonizing the arguments and opinions of those who care the most.

In the modern university, your opinion doesn't matter. Your argument doesn't matter. In the modern university, what you think is not as important as those who have been "peer reviewed," as if that means anything. The modern university is conditioning people to not think for themselves, but to instead look to other peoples opinions, then base their own discussion around that. After all, if you aren't making your own arguments, then it really is the mere discussion of another's own.

Ultimately, this all amounts to dehumanizing the individual and their spark of creativity, or desire for creation. By supposing that a students argument caries no weight unless they build it around another's own, students are coerced into believing that they themselves cannot come up with concrete and valid concepts, and must instead look to the institutions for the answers. This is sickening.

You are a human. You can intrinsically make value. Your arguments can hold true by themselves. Believe in that.