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20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being Offered At U.S. Universities
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economc Collapse blog,
Would you like to know what America's young people are actually learning while they are away at college? It isn't pretty. Yes, there are some very highly technical fields where students are being taught some very important skills, but for the most part U.S. college students are learning very little that they will actually use out in the real world when they graduate. Some of the college courses listed below are funny, others are truly bizarre, others are just plain outrageous, but all of them are a waste of money. If we are going to continue to have a system where we insist that our young people invest several years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars getting a "college education", they might as well be learning some useful skills in the process. This is especially true considering how much student loan debt many of our young people are piling up. Sadly, the truth is that right now college education in the United States is a total joke. I know - I spent eight years in the system. Most college courses are so easy that they could be passed by the family dog, and many of these courses "study" some of the most absurd things imaginable.
Listed below are 20 completely ridiculous college courses being offered at U.S. universities. The description following each course title either comes directly from the official course description or from a news story about the course...
1. "What If Harry Potter Is Real?" (Appalachian State University) - This course will engage students with questions about the very nature of history. Who decides what history is? Who decides how it is used or mis-used? How does this use or misuse affect us? How can the historical imagination inform literature and fantasy? How can fantasy reshape how we look at history? The Harry Potter novels and films are fertile ground for exploring all of these deeper questions. By looking at the actual geography of the novels, real and imagined historical events portrayed in the novels, the reactions of scholars in all the social sciences to the novels, and the world-wide frenzy inspired by them, students will examine issues of race, class, gender, time, place, the uses of space and movement, the role of multiculturalism in history as well as how to read a novel and how to read scholarly essays to get the most out of them.
2. "God, Sex, Chocolate: Desire and the Spiritual Path" (UC San Diego) - Who shapes our desire? Who suffers for it? Do we control our desire or does desire control us? When we yield to desire, do we become more fully ourselves or must we deny it to find an authentic identity beneath? How have religious & philosophical approaches dealt with the problem of desire?
3. "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity" (The University Of Virginia) - In Graduate Arts & Sciences student Christa Romanosky's ongoing ENWR 1510 class, "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity," students analyze how the musician pushes social boundaries with her work. For this introductory course to argumentative essay writing, Romanosky chose the Lady Gaga theme to establish an engaging framework for critical analysis.
4. "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame" (The University Of South Carolina) - Lady Gaga may not have much class but now there is a class on her. The University of South Carolina is offering a class called Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame. Mathieu Deflem, the professor teaching the course describes it as aiming to “unravel some of the sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga with respect to her music, videos, fashion, and other artistic endeavours.”
5. "Philosophy And Star Trek" (Georgetown) - Star Trek is very philosophical. What better way, then, to learn philosophy, than to watch Star Trek, read philosophy, and hash it all out in class? That's the plan. This course is basically an introduction to certain topics in metaphysics and epistemology philosophy, centered around major philosophical questions that come up again and again in Star Trek. In conjunction with watching Star Trek, we will read excerpts from the writings of great philosophers, extract key concepts and arguments and then analyze those arguments.
6. "Invented Languages: Klingon and Beyond" (The University Of Texas) - Why would anyone want to learn Klingon? Who really speaks Esperanto, anyway? Could there ever be a language based entirely on musical scales? Using constructed/invented languages as a vehicle, we will try to answer these questions as we discuss current ideas about linguistic theory, especially ideas surrounding the interaction of language and society. For example, what is it about the structure of Klingon that makes it look so "alien"? What was it about early 20th century Europe that spawned so many so-called "universal" languages? Can a language be inherently sexist? We will consider constructed/invented languages from a variety of viewpoints, such as languages created as fictional plot-devices, for philosophical debates, to serve an international function, and languages created for private fun. We won't be learning any one language specifically, but we will be learning about the art, ideas, and goals behind invented languages using diverse sources from literature, the internet, films, video games, and other aspects of popular culture.
7. "The Science Of Superheroes" (UC Irvine) - Have you ever wondered if Superman could really bend steel bars? Would a “gamma ray” accident turn you into the Hulk? What is a “spidey-sense”? And just who did think of all these superheroes and their powers? In this seminar, we discuss the science (or lack of science) behind many of the most famous superheroes. Even more amazing, we will discuss what kind of superheroes might be imagined using our current scientific understanding.
8. "Learning From YouTube" (Pitzer College) - About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments. Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance, posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling.
9. "Arguing with Judge Judy" (UC Berkeley) - TV "Judge" shows have become extremely popular in the last 3-5 years. A fascinating aspect of these shows from a rhetorical point of view is the number of arguments made by the litigants that are utterly illogical, or perversions of standard logic, and yet are used over and over again. For example, when asked "Did you hit the plaintiff?" respondents often say, "If I woulda hit him, he'd be dead!" This reply avoids answering "yes" or "no" by presenting a perverted form of the logical strategy called "a fortiori" argument ["from the stronger"] in Latin. The seminar will be concerned with identifying such apparently popular logical fallacies on "Judge Judy" and "The People's Court" and discussing why such strategies are so widespread. It is NOT a course about law or "legal reasoning." Students who are interested in logic, argument, TV, and American popular culture will probably be interested in this course. I emphasize that it is NOT about the application of law or the operations of the court system in general.
10. "Elvis As Anthology" (The University Of Iowa) - The class, “Elvis as Anthology,” focuses on Presley’s relationship to African American history, social change, and aesthetics. It focuses not just on Elvis, but on other artists who inspired him and whom he inspired.
11. "The Feminist Critique Of Christianity" (The University Of Pennsylvania) - An overview of the past decades of feminist scholarship about Christian and post-Christian historians and theologians who offer a feminist perspective on traditional Christian theology and practice. This course is a critical overview of this material, presented with a summary of Christian biblical studies, history and theology, and with a special interest in constructive attempts at creating a spiritual tradition with women's experience at the center.
12. "Zombies In Popular Media" (Columbia College) - This course explores the history, significance, and representation of the zombie as a figure in horror and fantasy texts. Instruction follows an intense schedule, using critical theory and source media (literature, comics, and films) to spur discussion and exploration of the figure's many incarnations. Daily assignments focus on reflection and commentary, while final projects foster thoughtful connections between student disciplines and the figure of the zombie.
13. "Far Side Entomology" (Oregon State) - For the last 20 years, a scientist at Oregon State University has used Gary Larson's cartoons as a teaching tool. The result has been a generation of students learning — and laughing — about insects.
14. "Interrogating Gender: Centuries of Dramatic Cross-Dressing" (Swarthmore) - Do clothes make the man? Or the woman? Do men make better women? Or women better men? Is gender a costume we put on and take off? Are we really all always in drag? Does gender-bending lead to transcendence or chaos? These questions and their ramifications for liminalities of race, nationality and sexuality will be our focus in a course that examines dramatic works from The Bacchae to M. Butterfly.
15. "Oh, Look, a Chicken!" Embracing Distraction as a Way of Knowing (Belmont University) - Students must write papers using their personal research on the five senses. Entsminger reads aloud illustrated books The Simple People and Toby’s Toe to teach lessons about what to value by being alive. Students listen to music while doodling in class. Another project requires students to put themselves in situations where they will be distracted and write a reflection tracking how they got back to their original intent.
16. "The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur" (University of Washington) - The UW is not the first college with a class dedicated to Shakur -- classes on the rapper have been offered at the University of California Berkeley and Harvard -- but it is the first to relate Shakur's work to literature.
17. "Cyberporn And Society" (State University of New York at Buffalo) - With classwork like this, who needs to play? Undergraduates taking Cyberporn and Society at the State University of New York at Buffalo survey Internet porn sites.
18. "Sport For The Spectator" (The Ohio State University) - Develop an appreciation of sport as a spectacle, social event, recreational pursuit, business, and entertainment. Develop the ability to identify issues that affect the sport and spectator behavior.
19. "Getting Dressed" (Princeton) - Jenna Weissman Joselit looks over the roomful of freshmen in front of her and asks them to perform a warm-up exercise: Chart the major moments of your lives through clothes. "If you pop open your closet, can you recall your lives?" she posits on the first day of the freshman seminar "Getting Dressed."
20. "How To Watch Television" (Montclair) - This course, open to both broadcasting majors and non-majors, is about analyzing television in the ways and to the extent to which it needs to be understood by its audience. The aim is for students to critically evaluate the role and impact of television in their lives as well as in the life of the culture. The means to achieve this aim is an approach that combines media theory and criticism with media education.
Are you starting to understand why our college graduates can't function effectively when they graduate and go out into the real world?
All of this would be completely hilarious if not for the fact that we have millions of young people going into enormous amounts of debt to pay to go to these colleges.
In America today, college education has become a giant money making scam. We have a system that absolutely throws money at our young people, but we never warn them about the consequences of all of these loans. The following is an excerpt from an email that one reader sent me recently about the student loan industry...
For example, one woman told me that her and her husband sat down and thought of every possible expense they could when they were applying for parent/student loan for their daughter. When the approval came back, they were approved for 7k more than they asked for…how about ****! Of course at 7%, why not! Funny thing is they kept the 7k, because she’s in wealth management and said she could “easily” get more than 7% in the stock market……awesome! I have another example of a younger friend of mine who graduated law school from Vanderbilt with 210k in student loans. I asked if tuition was that much there. She said kind of, but they kept offering more than the actual tuition, so she took it and used it for a better lifestyle. Now 20% of her income goes to pay those loans, and it’s still not enough to touch one dollar of the principal…so all she is doing is paying interest, and building on principal…like a revers amortizing mortgage. To make it worse, she was able to save 25k, so she is going to buy a house somehow. Having explained to her that the best investment in the world is to pay off a high interest loan, she said I’m tired of waiting to have a life.
In a recent article entitled "The Student Loan Delinquency Rate In The United States Has Hit A Brand New Record High" I detailed how nightmarish our student loan debt bubble is becoming. According to the Federal Reserve, the total amount of student loan debt has risen by 275 percent since 2003, and it just continues to soar.
A college education can be a wonderful thing, but right now we have got a system that is deeply, deeply broken.
So what do you think about our system of higher education?
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"her" buttcrack just for clarification purposes.
In other words, you are the loud, boring jackass who never went to college, and was so repellent to women that he never ever got a date. Yeah, those guys always talked like you do.
Most colleges with big sports teams had some easy 5 credit courses for the jocks to take that were an easy A ..to keep them on the team or on the scholorship....
Yep....geology was a favorite major....it was referred to as "Rocks for Jocks"
I took that and we got to go on field trips to look at the rocks the work crews cut through to build the highways.
My highschool football coach was sure that I got 4 straight years of PE and woodshop and votech.
Living near UCSC, I'll hazard a guess one could find 50 courses they are offering that are ridiculous.
Millenials in the Workplace: http://youtu.be/Sz0o9clVQu8
Of all the bashing of the great American institutions this site offers the world, none deserve this bashing more than American university sacredness. Now I believe Daddy Bernanke is a criminal, mostly for acting like he believes he is Yaweh; however the insidious nature of a government and college presidents abusing our young generaration's (actually society's) belief that everyone can be a leader and leaders NEED a PhD, so they will be debt slaves to THEIR government and college presidents can get RICH, is beyond the pale.
Tylers, Zerohedge could provide all the students in the above classes a better, more beneficial class than they get from any of those courses. You should get a professor title. Just an idea for you to chew that may be chewing tobacco.
...thoroughly enjoying the "Columbia Southern University" ad on my cpu with the older "lady" in the construction flagger uniform......EDUCATOIN.
Im finishing up an engineering degree. My last Bacc Core class is about cyber porn. Its actually quite astonishing the role pornography has played in developing much of the tech we use today. Online payment, Streaming video etc.. were first commercially successful because of porn.
Most of us already knew that simply by being aware of the world we live in. We didn't have to waste thousands of dollars being spoon fed the obvious.
Many a sweet little fortune has built through cyber porn, together with the legitimate offshore business structures counselled by Mr. Simon Black.
Or you can take the one class encompassing all above: Mental Bukkake
The clash of the philosophies is this. p1. We are running out of resources and we desperately need to focus our skills and education in that area to deal with the crisis. p2 By "developing" myself I am bettering the world and adding to the worlds resources
All of the courses look interesting to me Id like to sit in on a few, but I dont see how they add any value to the person taking them or the world. Holiday camp, a extension of the womb. Four years of good sex and interesting philisophical debates. If you can afford it nice, but most cant and there lies the rub, the skills imparted have no value that will be compensated in the real world to offset the cost of camp. Of course if you consider .guv the real world Im wrong. At this point I think most attendees know it is holiday camp. The degree; the ultimate coupon of entitlement. We humans value our cleverness a lot. Just like Mcgyver all we have to do is be clever and it will get us out of any jam! Many have spent their life earnings sending their kids to school but as earning potential decreases this is no longer possible and is replaced with debt funding of camp attendees. Camp sustainability is defined by the camp attendees ability to pay off their camp debt.
Basket Weaving 101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvO5gQ-LT7w
(serious inquires only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsHLkB8u3s
You dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!
They've got plenty of education for where they're going.
# 1 actually sounds like a good course, despite the fact that none of the 20 presented are worth paying money for.
Recorded history, indeed, is more imagination than fact so might as well be a Harry Potter novel. Bible - the fantasy bestseller of all times is proof enough.
Some courses have stupid sounded titles but offer substance, others sound smart but are pointlessly dumb. Regardless of content, close to 100% aren't worth the price of admission.
Exactly. The interesting ones can be "taken" by buying a used book or borrowing from a library. The thousands of dollars spent is simply letting a child play in an expensive day care.
Students are pussies: mathematics, physics and mechanical engineering are real degrees! Yet few them take the ballsy route.
Of course no matter what degree you pursue you do get disassociated with reality, and when the course ends... Reality slaps you in the face. HARD.
I got my degree in manufacturing engineering back in the day. Walk into first job with my nice briefcase and all. Start telling machinists what to do. They look at me and tell me to STFU. I say, well I have this degree and all. They tell me that it doesn't mean shit. I began my real education that day and learned a lot.
Thats exactly how a efficient business works. Student with piece of paper meets real world and adapts and hopefully their education was innovative enough they can bring something to the table. All to often havoc is wreaked by a granting power to a student with a piece of paper that is unwilling or unable to continue to learn.
#21. How to increase college revenues by offering completely ridiculous college courses
#22. Economics
Author fails to note that 1st year courses are often given ironic pop-titles to sell them to clueless naive youngsters, and a large majority of these are seminars (not entire courses), and have to embrace this kind of stuff because of the poverty of earlier education. For instance, I can guarantee 100% that the Far Side entomology class will actually have a lot of real science in it. Most of them are only worth 3 credits, that's a major give away.
CreditDuring each semester, you will take a variety of courses, each of which is awarded a number of 'credits.' A credit is a unit of study. Most courses carry 3 credits, although varying amount of credit can be awarded for lectures, independent project work, laboratory time and internships. Universities usually expect students to complete:
So, if our theoretical student took all of these classes, they'd only have 50% of a degree. There's a couple of fluff ones in there for sure, but to ignore the metadata is ignorant, and leads to people thinking that the University of P <you find it out> is real and not a scam. (See here for examples, there's lots of ammo in there: ironically, it's usually the Christian Fundy Right with these dodgy types of accreditation).
Translation: Old Guy fucks up humor, doesn't understand modern University, misses the point. There's a far better, far more savage indictment to be had, but this isn't it. Here's the Onion on it.
Yep, nice to see that someone else gets it...
No one has to take these classes. Most likely, they are all optional. The participants choose to be there.
The faculty members are referencing popular culture as a way of enticing the students to enroll. When students consider themselves to be consumers and the course catalog treated the same as a shoe catalog, then it is an approach that has some merit. You lure them in then bring out the real academic texts.
The Klingon language course is probably really good. The course description touches on many of the major issues on the edges of linguistics and philosophy. I imagine the bibliography could include Wittgenstein, Tarsky and Chomsky. It also looks like it touches on machine language theory (computer languages and computability).
Aw, screw it..... Silver Bitchez! Fuk The Fed, College is a Scam!
I had a survey class on math that had a big componant like that - we learned different notational systems (Assyrian, Egyptian, Roman, binary, hexidecimal, etc.) and had to use them to compute problems - got to see the limitations and positives in each method of conceptualizing the raw data. Best math class I ever took.
That class sounds really good. It turns out that how things are said affects what can be said. There is no such thing as a universal language. Probably no such thing as "raw data" either.
The first two tenets in Lenin’s Decalogue Manual to Seize Control of a Society used in the 1917 Russian Re-Revolution were
1. Corrupt the youth and give them absolute sexual freedom.
2. Infiltrate and take control of the mass communication media.
Does a college course on Lady GaGa fit the mold?
Yes. The reason. It’s to break down middle class values and the American family – to establish world communism.
You know what? We’re not talking about education; we’re not even talking about debt and wasted lives. We’re talking about the end of a country. We’re talking about the end of a culture, about the deliberate corruption and destruction of America’s young people, whether they be college age or 10 and 12 years old.
We’re talking about the Hollywood control of academia, of the U.S. Congress, of our state legislatures, of America’s publishing houses and her media.
We’re talking about power, about people the likes of media mogul Samuel Irvin Newhouse, Jr., ranked the 47th richest American by Forbes Magazine in 2011 with an estimated net worth of $6.6 billion – publisher of Glamour Magazine.
The article below is not a single occurrence in Glamour; this is repetitious cultural degration, in an issue of Glamour every month, as newsstand and monthly advice to America’s youth, aimed at girls and women who hold a nation’s moral future in their hands; these publishers may do it partly for money, but their main objective is degradation of the youth on the way to control of the middle class.
How To Turn Any Man Into A Total Vagenius | Glamour | April 2012 issue (including a picture of a young girl with her skirt blown up above her waist and a large crude bright red heart (in the magazine) as a target) :
Is your guy a little lost down there? Good news: He can be taught. And you're just the woman to do it.
There was a scene during the second season of The Good Wife that I wanted to send out to every guy in America—hell, in the world. Peter Florrick, played by Chris Noth, stops by the courthouse and sees his wife, Alicia (Julianna Margulies), do some pretty kick-ass defense-lawyering. That night, when he gets home from work, he interrupts Alicia while she's brushing her teeth. "I saw you in court today," he says, kissing her. "You were amazing." She leans back against the sink, telling him she has to study...as his head goes out of frame, below her waist. The look on her face is pure pleasure. I suggest you go view it on YouTube right now.
Hot, right? And while that scene stands out, there's a lot of ladypart appreciation around these days, whether it's Azealia Banks singing about her "plum... gettin' eaten" in the song "212" or Schmidt on New Girl consulting a lesbian gyne cologist so that he too can be "a vagenius." But not every guy is as confident as Peter or as enterprising as Schmidt—so it's up to us to help them out. How do you turn a vadoofus into a vagenius? Read on for a four-step issue-solving plan.
Issue No. 1: He won't go there.
Look: If your guy thinks your downtown area is just for one thing, that's a problem. If you have to ask him every time, that is a problem. Have a glass of wine for courage, and ask what the deal is. Depending on his answer, you'll need either another glass of wine or these tips.
Issue No. 2: He fumbles.
Most men do know that there are some key spots to stimulate, but many aren't totally sure how to locate those spots in the moment (or with a new partner). If your guy is a bit lost, speak up and give him directions—with a few "mmm"s and a "yes!" or two for good behavior. (You don't want to sound like a sexual GPS: "Left! Right! Recalculating....") If you're worrying about his male ego, don't. Most guys have no problem with some guidance in this department.
Issue No. 3: He's not using his hands.
Without taking anything away from mouths and other parts, hands are a sexual tool that every vagenius needs, and this applies to both oral and penetrative sex. Gently guide his to where you'd like them to be, and be enthusiastic when they get there.
Issue No. 4: He needs to vary his technique.
If he's got only one move, it'll get old no matter how good it feels. Try making suggestions in the form of questions, such as, "I wonder how it would feel if you moved your tongue/finger in a circle?" or as compliments: "I liked the part where you did that." Now you've got a vagenius on your hands (and other places). Enjoy!
http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/2013/03/how-to-make-any-man-amazing-in-bed
You do realise that everything Lenin ever wrote is online, right? If you search it (as I just exhaustively did), you'll notice that "Manual to Seize Control of a Society" doesn't fucking exist.
The closest I could get was Letters on Tactics:
I am deeply convinced that the Soviets will make the independent activity of the masses a reality more quickly and effectively than will a parliamentary republic (I shall compare the two types of states in greater detail in another letter). They will more effectively, more practically and more correctly decide what steps can be taken towards socialism and how these steps should be taken. Control over a bank, the merging of all banks into one, is not yet socialism, but it is a step towards socialism. Today such steps are being taken in Germany by the Junkers and the bourgeoisie against the people. Tomorrow the Soviet will be able to take these steps more effectively for the benefit of the people if the whole state power is in its hands.
What compels such steps?
Famine. Economic disorganisation. Imminent collapse. The horrors of war. The horrors of the wounds inflicted on mankind by the war.- Lenin 1917
As for your epic rant about oral sex (really?!?), it has nothing to do with Communism.
JR old man - the internet doesn't work like your old chain letters. We can check the level of bullshit within 5 minutes. If you want to peddle bullshit, there's plenty of real evidence without resorting to making shit up. Crass Consumerism & the Commoditization of Sexuality (especially childhood sexuality) are indeed massive issues - but they've got fuck all to do with Lenin.
p.s. "aimed at girls and women who hold a nation’s moral future in their hands" - please don't make penis jokes when you're denouncing Sexuality depravity, it kinda makes it look like you're selling snake oil while taking the piss to a modern audience (the old tactics).
Seeing as the full Soviet archives have never been opened, your assertion is a crude lie.
Once again your prove yourself a bloviating windbag more appropriate to a prime-time TV show cast, filling the role of "the middle-aged writers' stereotype of the pompous, naïve, precocious, presumptuous Internet/technology OBSESSED and generally full-of-him/herself GenY'er, who uses the pronoun "we" in the most annoyingly paternalistic manner possible" . Are you billed in the credits?
The Lenin Decalogue is a well known and totally obvious piece of Disinfo used to rally the Religious Right to the cause.
Here's it being quoted as "from 1913" instead of 1917 (can't even keep the dates straight). It's as corny and fake as the Protocols of Zion. One way of telling this is the simplistic format (Decalogue = 10 Commandments, it's used as a cognitive mirror to the reader's belief in Biblical writings) and the fact it is stylistically radically different than any of Lenin's other writings.
It's also aimed at people with a mental age of 10: a very obvious and simple heuristic is to compare the list to:
#1 Analysis & Fears of pre-WWI Communism & Praxis.
vrs
#2 Analysis & Fears of post-Reagan American Religious Right.
Guess which ones the "list of 10" seems to mirror? Hint: it ain't fucking 1915 Soviets. There's concepts in there that simply didn't exist for Lenin.
If you want to actually know how Lenin wanted to spread Communism, it's called the fucking Comintern or The Communist International. There's plenty of documents showing just what the plans were:
While never provoking civil war artificially, the Communist parties seek to shorten as much as possible the duration of civil war whenever the latter does arrive with iron necessity; they seek to reduce to a minimum the number of victims and, above all, to assure victory to the proletariat. Hence flows the necessity of disarming the bourgeoisie in time, of arming the workers in time, of creating in time the Communist army to defend the workers’ power and to preserve its socialist construction inviolate. Such is the Red Army of Soviet Russia which arose and exists as the bulwark of the conquests of the working class against all attacks from within and without. The Soviet Army is inseparable from the Soviet State...
If the First International presaged the future course of development and indicated its paths; if the Second International gathered and organized millions of workers; then the Third International is the International of open mass action, the International of revolutionary realization, the International of the deed.
Bourgeois world order has been sufficiently lashed by Socialist criticism. The task of the International Communist Party consists in overthrowing this order and erecting in its place the edifice of the socialist order. We summon the working men and women of all countries to unite under the Communist banner which is already the banner of the first great victories. [Trotsky]
or:
Destruction of state power is the aim set by all Socialists, including Marx above all. Genuine democracy, i.e., Liberty and equality, is unrealizable unless this aim is achieved. But it’s practical achievement as possible only through Soviet, or proletarian, democracy, for by enlisting the mass organizations of the working people in constant and unfailing participation in the administration of the state, it immediately begins to prepare the complete withering away of any state.[Lenin]
Obviously, Stalin & co forgot about the "withering away" bit...
Once again, you prove yourself to be an ancient relic of 1960's disinfo propaganda and a fucking muppet. If you're Intel, you're way past your sell by date.
Kind'a like the Protocols.....
Any chance that both might be by the same author?
Just wonderin..........
So did Lenin write a "Manual to Seize Control of a Society" or not?
All past morality, past order and authority were rejected during the 1917 Russian Revolution.
The Frankfurt School: Conspiracy to corrupt is an article by Timothy Matthews which explains “how Marxist-Leninist, Soviet-style manipulative tactics have been part and parcel of America's educational 'restructuring' effort, just as it provides proof that educational restructuring is, at its root, an attempt to re-mold American society.”
As for the source of the Decalogue, it came from Dr. Kent’s Blog:
http://drkentshow.com/wordpress/?p=3772
The Decalogue is backed by the tenets of the Frankfort School. What was the Frankfurt School? It is explained by Matthews, editor of the British Catholic News, a news service of the National Association of Catholic Families, United Kingdom. The article appeared December 11, 2008. Here are corroborating excerpts :
“[I]n the days following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, it was believed that the workers’ revolution would sweep into Europe and, eventually, into the United States. But it did not do so. Towards the end of 1922 the Communist International (Comintern) began to consider what were the reasons. On Lenin’s initiative a meeting was organised at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow.
The aim of the meeting was to clarify the concept of, and give concrete effect to, a Marxist cultural revolution.
Amongst those present were Georg Lukacs (a Hungarian aristocrat, son of a banker, who had become a Communist during World War I; a good Marxist theoretician he developed the idea of ‘Revolution and Eros’ - sexual instinct used as an instrument of destruction) and Willi Munzenberg (whose proposed solution was to ‘organise the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilisation stink. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat’). ‘It was’, said Ralph de Toledano (1916-2007) the conservative author and co-founder of the ‘National Review’, a meeting ‘perhaps more harmful to Western civilization than the Bolshevik Revolution itself.
To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution - but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future - the School recommended (among other things):
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea of ‘pansexualism’ - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:
• attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
• abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
• abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces
• declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’
Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.'
The School believed there were two types of revolution: (a) political and (b) cultural. Cultural revolution demolishes from within. ‘Modern forms of subjection are marked by mildness’. They saw it as a long-term project and kept their sights clearly focused on the family, education, media, sex and popular culture.
The Family
The School’s ‘Critical Theory’ preached that the ‘authoritarian personality’ is a product of the patriarchal family - an idea directly linked to Engels’ Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, which promoted matriarchy. Already Karl Marx had written, in the “Communist Manifesto”, about the radical notion of a ‘community of women’ and in The German Ideology of 1845, written disparagingly about the idea of the family as the basic unit of society. This was one of the basic tenets of the ‘Critical Theory’ : the necessity of breaking down the contemporary family. The Institute scholars preached that ‘Even a partial breakdown of parental authority in the family might tend to increase the readiness of a coming generation to accept social change.’
Following Karl Marx, the School stressed how the ‘authoritarian personality’ is a product of the patriarchal family—it was Marx who wrote so disparagingly about the idea of the family being the basic unit of society. All this prepared the way for the warfare against the masculine gender promoted by Marcuse under the guise of ‘women’s liberation’ and by the New Left movement in the 1960s.
They proposed transforming our culture into a female-dominated one…
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=111051.0
Your sources are total shit.
Try this:
In 1933, Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The precise reason for Article 121 is in some dispute among historians. The few official government statements made about the law tended to confuse homosexuality with pedophilia and was tied up with a belief that homosexuality was only practiced among fascists or the aristocracy. [Source]
Yeah, seems like the Communists were REALLY pro-homosexuality there.
All you're doing is projecting your own fears onto a mythical bogeyman called Communism. I'd laugh, if it wasn't so sad or made you so easy to manipulate.
Ahh, now I see you.
UK Registered Charity No.298481 Not at all run by one lone nutter, must be...
Fucking Opus Dei. I'm out..
Of course Stalin made homosexuality a crime in the Soviet Union; he was trying to build an empire, not to destroy one. We are talking here about the weapons of mass destruction to be used by Marxists to destroy America.
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. – Joseph Stalin
The foundation of our country was built upon morality and the Christian religion: John Adams stated, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” And now this, the cracks that have made a rubble of that foundation, fromWikipedia:
The Naked Communist is a book written in 1958 by conservative United States author and faith-based political theorist Cleon Skousen.[1]
The book posits and seeks to describe a geopolitical strategy by which the Marxist–Leninist Soviet Union was attempting to overcome and control all the governments of the world that were not members of the Communist bloc. At the time that the book was published, during the Cold War, fear of communism was common among people in non-communist nations.
The list of communist goals contained in the book was read into the Congressional Record by U.S. Congressman Albert S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida, on January 10, 1963.[2] :
Now read a few of the communist goals documented in the 1958 book:
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity, masturbation and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
Read the complete list on Wikipedia
That was a Cute Gish Gallop.
Now, if I thought you weren't just CTRL + C / CTRL + V this shit, I might react. Zzzzz. Shoo! Using Skousen is really dating yourself / showing your Mormon / Birch / Glen Beck listening habits. Careful with that, I might get a whole lot more information from you than you'd like. Hint: I already have the phone number of your mad Catholic ranter (I wasn't even looking for it).
As I said: you've a good cause in frowning on the hyper-sexualization / Commodity fetishism being applied to Society, but you should look a little closer to home for the real sources. Communists weren't big on this stuff, they really weren't (even if they had to wait 8 years for a Lada). People who like money, at any cost, on the other hand...
Lada vrs GM - do you really think Communists could come up with vajazzling? The Soviets and The Chinese really aren't that inventive. Look in the mirror, the bogey man is you.
Soviets like Lenin would probably puke at this; as I said, Stop Projecting.
(Bored now - bye!)
There are two sides in this discussion. My points are attacking the evils of Communism and the Soviet system. And you are on the opposite side, either attacking what I say or defending their system.
It’s an irony in this day and age when their system was a tyranny and responsible for the slaughter of millions of innocent people and the imprisonment of millions of others.
No, the real irony is that you're desperate to blame an outside source for your society's ills. Russians are much more cynical about their own system, for very good reason. We all know its failings, and why it failed. It no longer exists, you sad old blood hound.
You're unable to deal with modernity. We get it. But you can't even understand that modern Russians are much better at understanding the world than you. Branded. Try it sometime; you'll find you've much more in common with modern Russians than you realize.
p.s. Next time, read the reply and watch the links. You replied in under three minutes, you didn't watch / follow any of the links. Busted - bored with arguing with a cracked and tarnished antique mirror who hasn't even the honor and respect to engage with the arguments. Ciao.
A e m, I am starting to agree with you...and you're making sense. Perhaps it,s the Chablis
JR is too close ;-)
Can't have that now, can we?
Close to what? It's obvious to anyone I'm merely providing some thought to mindless CTRL C/V of Beckian mental spam.
Btw, Please, enlighten me with exactly who you think I'm running cover for. I suspect I know the answer, but be a dear and spit it out. I thought your lot were all about the Pride, eh?
You are running cover for revisionist history, in the negative connotation – i.e., history rewritten and twisted to promote the interests and viewpoints of communists, socialists, Indians, Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, feminists, international bankers and other promoters of a socialist one-world government.
It is anti-fact, anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-White, anti-American Founders, anti-freedom, anti-capitalism, anti-free enterprise, anti-family, anti-sovereignty and anti-Western Civilization. It is anti-God.
That's so depressing, but understandable. How do you fit love into your massive databank of hatred?
I AM THAT I AM.
Your Ego is Astounding.
JR, little tip - you're not on the right side. I was trying to save your silly ass, I gave you enough openings to open up, understand and repent. You and the idea of God are really not on the same level. "Anti" is hate. And Hate does not lead to God, unless I've mis-read your personal Religious Texts. If you believe in a soul, you just sold it. For Hate. That's not our side's business.
Old Blood-Hound, we were rooting for you, and we know all those things you did weren't your fault. Please, stop this, before it's too late. You can turn away from this.
Find a child, look on them - if you cannot love them in your heart, or anything, then seek absolution. Old Blood Hound, we forgive your past actions.
Old Blood Hound, you are only hating yourself, and we understand that, but stop putting it on others. You are still with us. Even after all that horror. It was not your fault, and it is not their fault.
We are here. Hate is not needed. There is no need for it, we forgive you. Old Dogs do go to Heaven, you're not beyond saving, despite what you might think internally. There is love, and we love you. Unconditionally. Stop this rebellion, we understand: and the solution is not hatred.
Old Blood Hound: we still love you.
that was unfair! that kids' pageant clip was a blow below the belt.
I know it is completly pointless to try to tell you anything that doesn't already conform to your worldview of pre-digested ideas, but what you have written here is total nonsense.
"The Frankfurt School" is an informal term that names a series of writers and philosophers. But its origins are in the 30's at the University of Frankfurt's Institute for Social Research. Frankfurt, not Moscow -- thus the name.
Yes, they sure did read Marx, but the people who were to become associate with the Frankfurt School (including Lukacs) were kicked out of the traditional communist parties.
Why go through all the acrobatics just to say that you are not into Marx?
“Lenin died in 1924. By this time, however, Stalin was beginning to look on Munzenberg, Lukacs and like-thinkers as ‘revisionists’. In June 1940, Münzenberg fled to the south of France where, on Stalin’s orders, a NKVD assassination squad caught up with him and hanged him from a tree.
“In the summer of 1924, after being attacked for his writings by the 5th Comintern Congress, Lukacs* moved to Germany, where he chaired the first meeting of a group of Communist-oriented sociologists, a gathering that was to lead to the foundation of the Frankfurt School.
“This ‘School’ (designed to put flesh on their revolutionary programme) was started at the University of Frankfurt in the Institut für Sozialforschung. To begin with school and institute were indistinguishable. In 1923 the Institute was officially established, and funded by Felix Weil (1898-1975). “ -- Timothy Matthews
*Georg Lukacs was a Hungarian aristocrat, son of a banker, who had become a Communist during World War I.
"Georg Lukács was born Löwinger György Bernát, in Budapest, Hungary, to the investment banker József Löwinger (later Szegedi Lukács József; 1855–1928) and his wife Adele Wertheimer (Wertheimer Adél (1860–1917), who were a wealthy Jewish family. He had a brother and sister. As an Austro–Hungarian subject, the full names of Georg Lukács were the German "Georg Bernhard Lukács von Szegedin", and the Hungarian "Szegedi Lukács György Bernát"; as a writer, he published under the names "Georg Lukács" and "György Lukács". Georg Lukács studied at the universities of Budapest and Berlin, and received his doctorate in 1906 in Kolozsvar." (Wikipedia)
I just signed up for "Oh, Look, a Chi
I'm going to pick up my honorary Ph.D. right after I close these 47 browser tabs.
The daughter of a friend of mine is majoring in "Environmental Management" at UC Davis. She spent an entire quarter cutting out paper dolls in her Communication I class. The purpose was to demonstrate to the kids the value of relating to children.
Oddly enough, she got a job for the summer working for the Navy coloring in charts by hand with colored pencils. I guess a good education really paid off.
I failed and got kicked out of "Cyberporn And Society". I got caught surfing ZH.
I'm going to design some courses.
obama is a guest prof teaching how to ruin the US.
Eminem- Public Enemy #1 Lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7_GsKSwVVA
The only course that future slaves (College Students) should actually take and be proficient upon completion is a course in CUNNILINGUS & FELLATIO, with extra credit for learning ANALINGUS!
Only if Michael Douglas is the teacher. Otherwise, who knows if the teacher is a true expert?
Star Trek course could be good. A moneyless society and a meritocracy based on pride and ethics as oppsed to payment. The Fed needs to watch that show
That's nothing. The students at one of the colleges that I go to go there and get fuckin shot. Although DHS and the police have been seriously doing drills there earlier in the semester. Probably they will hit UT next. They did a lot of drills there too. And on top of it Parking doubled just to pay the DHS for their expertise.
Don't forget Vampirism at UCSB
Wrong!
The two most ridiculous are:
1) Constitutional law. Whose Constitution do they use anyways?
2) Economics, or at least any economics that is not of the Austrian school. Anything else is just lies for the regimes.
Dear listening intelligence services, Please help with this argument that I am having with my wife, you know the one. She says I sneak food at night and I am pretty sure that I do not. Please let me know if she is right, so I can find a way to save-face before our wedding anniversary. Thanks and as always, cold regards
To the Salt Mines !
Heres a idea! Sign up for 1 credit to get the ID. Go to the courses you like for intellectual stimulation and to meet girls and get laid. Dont tell anyone what you are doing it will ruin it if they find out you are not "serious". Play video ganes during exam week. Holiday camp on $20 a day!
Something to remind everyone who hasn't been in college since the 80s: virtually all but the top tier schools are liberal arts colleges too, they enforce a gen-en credit requirement, which is just a way to bilk students for more money by requiring them to take courses unrelated to their majors and minors. Yes, requiring; no diploma otherwise. For the first two years, major-specific courses are limited to two or even just one per semester. It is a fucking joke.
Remove this idiotic requirement backed up by nothing but politically correct Great Society free-everything economically ignorant bullshit rhetoric which has no place in reality let alone in a time when college costs are high and rising, and students graduate in HALF the time ... Which would mean half the debt, and that absolutely cannot happen under any circumstances.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU COMBINE VENDOR FINANCING, CAPTIVE MARKETS, AND A CARTEL SYSTEM ALL IN ONE. DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS LARRY?
There is not enough shame in the universe for America's university admin and faculties. It is truly a fucking Disgrace.
This is why I require a college transcript before I hire. In the 60's the easiest course outside of PE was " Word Derivatives". Everybody got and "A" or "B+", but heck, we at least increased our vocabulary a little while beefing up our grade average.
So i paid for MDB's master in Cyberporn and Society via inflation. Nice.
I gave up college after I flunked out for the fourth time.
Advanced Jizz Mopping Techniques .... lectures and lab work .... bring your own mop ! Care to try out for the Drill Team ? Check one: (probably not) _____ (definitely)_____
Wait you forgot;
Sociology; how to blame society for why you are so fucked up
Psychology; how to blame your parents for why you are so fucked up
Statistics; How to get the numbers to say what you want them to say, so you can provide proof that being fucked up is someone elses fault.
How to take a shit, 101 (free for college students currently enrolled in other shit courses):
- Place asshole over porcelain bowl
- Spread cheeks
- Unload your ass package while using handicap "grunt rails" for further assistance
- Sigh in relief
- Wait for stragglers...
- Wipe, flush, and GTFO
This message is brought to you by the ASSociation for College Students and the Elderly who keep forgetting.
Edit: Don't shake hands or eat popcorn unless you have taken the extended ass wiping course in hygenics.
This is barmy stuff ... a waste of money.
The US is not alone in governmental madness... in the UK, the last socialist government under Gordon Brown spent £5 million of taxpayers money to fund an educational course in a Hard-Left NE London Borough with the cute title of "Teaching Children How To Play".
thank the gods that "Wine 101" is not included. Let alone "Beer 101" or "Drinks 101"
These courses obviously lead to great professions in the "Hospitality Industry" and, I betcha' a "college degree" is required to serve the 0.001%
Serve directly, I should clarify.
- Ned
I came to the conclusion a few years back that the primary purpose of a small business within the economy, is to fail, and when it fails to declare bankruptcy thereby wiping out the debt and leaving the credit cycling.
Students seem to be taking that role now.
I went to what I consider the best (prep school) of all, and it started me on a great career. Taught me many things, most important of all, how to work as a team leader or follower. Best of all, they paid me, not the reverse. And I really enjoyed my four years, or at least the time after Basic Training.
You know college is in a bubble when...
I'm going to have to ask them for more money to go to college next year.
This is what I have to put up with for the little they are giving me. I mayswell join the fucking military at this rate.
SMC gunman message today
How about a course in tactical weaponry and self preservation.
Either y'all went to one of them fancy eastern colleges where the only varsity sport on campus was girls softball or its just been too long since you were there. The kids enrolling in those classes aren't your debt slaves - they're your jocks and they have scholarships. Why does college cost so much? Seen the gym - which can now seat 60,000? How bout that new stadium? These courses are all liberal arts for morons. Oh, don't give me that line that some center from UM became the POTUS, or that some Yaley linebacker got a PhD in nuclear physics. They are at least 2 sigma from the mean (and the mean wouldn't know what that means). Schools offer such courses - and encourage their student athletes to enroll in them precisely because it affords said students an opportunity to graduate magna cum laude while still setting records on the field. That such courses are offered is NOT a sign of America's declining intellect, it is a sign of America's addiction to sports. Go Spurs!
Whenshe drops below ....iam in w a vengeance.
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I just finished a course called "Post Secular Aesthetics?". Don't ask, no one figured it out.
I was at work and could not really comment on this post at the time and many others have stated what I am about to reiterate. Many of those courses, if taught correctly would be valuable "red pill" inducing critical thinking courses. Utilitarians, ones who believe education must train people for "productive" work and the ones who scorn these course the most, are actually the philosophical drivers of removing critical thinking education from curricula. Isn't it interesting that the children of TPTB take liberal arts education and have so for millennia. Sure, obtaining a liberal arts degree doesn't lead you to direct employment opportunities but it often (depending on the student and the instructor) leads to a more critical understanding of the functions of government, propaganda and means of social control. Most of the people deriding these courses on this post are also the most vocal about how unaware the sheople are.
I agree that there are huge problems with the "higher education" system and its debt inducing culture, but some of these courses have a high "red pill" potential to the students who take them.
I junked this article (gave it a one) as it actually promotes the current zeitgeist of non critical thinking people and an authoritarian government.
In Vancouver, you can ''study Mountain Biking at Capilano University'', which is a glorified community college.
What if Mortal Kombat is real?
avoiding flatulence during oral sex. a 3 year hands on course.
This was amusing but I suspect a lot of these are continuing Ed classes for bored locals.
Or maybe bored professors.
watching tv is a useful thing to study, a specialism for some and a broad brief course woud be useful to many.
personally i have always been fascinated by the power of tv, it is hypnotic, can be used to condition behaviour and so on. im still an amateur photographer and film maker some 25 years later . i studied film and communications as A levels in the uk and learnt much to back up my critical attitude. look up things like agenda setting, the glasgow media group - for news dissection, white, grey and black propaganda.
i also had a great interest in psychology and philosophy mainly wilhelm reich and neitszche, have a read of 'the mass psychology of fascism' or 'listen little man' and of course 'thus spoke zarathustra' for a critique of modern man.
i used to watch alot of tv, learning techniques of story telling, argument structure, etc i was certainly experimental as a youth and used acid occasionally to further examine myself (between laughing) and the programming we have all been subjected too. when it was too wet and cold to go out i remember drawing a swastika, cruxifix, dollar sign and love heart on each corner of the tv screen and then watching the news or the pope whatever come on, was a great laugh and made so much sense ;- ) - i thoroughly recommend it!
nowadays i dont watch tv at all, in the uk you need a tv license, and if you dont have one a man comes knocking on your door acting like the law, talk about the thought police. he came aroung twice and just gave up, for now, but the nasty threatening letters still turn up regularly. now i mainly watch classics and old british and us films on you tube.
i never went to university because when i left college they had just got rid of grants and introduced student loans, i never had any back up from my parents and was afraid of getting into debt, so i missed out, and that was a time when a degree meant something. i probably would have studied philosophy, and the value of that would have been in the practice and application of logic, argument, and reasoning, taking my intelligence up a level in a relatively short space of time, that could have been applied to many situations in real life.
In defense of the 'Sport for the Spectator' at tOSU, its a holding pen for future athletes/gamblers/agents/bench warmers. You'd probably pick up a few good tips there...
In defense of the 'Sport for the Spectator' at tOSU, its a holding pen for future athletes/gamblers/agents/bench warmers. You'd probably pick up a few good tips there...
When did 'underwater basket weaving' drop off that list?
All of these courses are very necessary, for two reasons.
1) Starts people on a debt cycle that results in debt serfdom thereby ensuring they will remain part of the system for life.
2) Keeps them off the unemployment rolls which helps in keeping the DOW up, refer point 1.
I guess "Tivo" is considered a grad course.
If you complete all 20 courses plus a BZH (Bachelor of Zero Hedge) you receive a DOCTORATE of AMERICAN DECLINE
You're right; they should just shup up and learn to love lathe-working.
Some of them seem to be related to human psychology and sociology, which are highly applicable economics, sales, marketing, innovation, adoption, markets, sentiment, cycles, and more. I mean many/most of the kiddies taking those classes might not know it, but there are probably some valuable nuggets to be had with some of those classes, especially if the classes timmulate them to wonder about how and why humans do things and to question ideas and assumptions and to think for themselves and with a critical eye.
Hahahahaha
The next one is : how to be the best money printing comedian, Uncle Ben :-)
I lost 2 IQ pints just reading the course outlines. Thank fuck for the comments section.