Colleges have flung their doors open to people who in past would have been excluded. Some were excluded for the wrong reasons, but many were excluded for the right reason—they weren’t really college material. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
and the death of reason
a few of us were having an interesting conversation about the issue of midwits over on X the other day. it was prompted by this missive from gatopal™ devon:
my response was this:
i suspect the fatal mistake that weaponized the midwits was educating them.
university used to be for the top 3-5% of intellects, a serious and seriously difficult undertaking suitable for and completable by only a very small group of people whose IQ cutoff was likely around 125. the standards were rigid and many aspirants to sheepskins went home empty handed.
jamming universities full of 100’s and 110’s broke the system, forced it to dumb down, and drove it away from ideas of logic and critical thinking and into doctrine and regurgitation because the “customer” was no longer capable of the former and thus had to be served the latter.
Overabundance of “elites” brings hard times?
I love that scene where Dr. Lexus freaks out like a lil’ girl hitting an alarm klaxon because Not Sure doesn’t have the UPC tattoo on his wrist, disheartened when he got the tattoo.
Vaccine papers please, comrade.