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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Freedom from Mind-Controlled Education

Freedom from Mind-Controlled Education

by Jon Rappoport

Over the past few years, I’ve written extensively about clap-trap higher education, which is turning out to be a combination of values-indoctrination, peer pressure, conformity, Leftist ideology, peppered with an astounding number of vague unexamined generalities. It adds up to intellectual starvation by attrition. It’s a war against the…

There is a joke told by physicists in which a farmer asks a theoretical physicist to help him increase milk production to combat falling prices. After a few weeks of tackling the problem, the physicist asks the farmer to attend his afternoon’s theory seminar, as his solution is more complicated than he originally thought. At the seminar, the physicist draws a circle on the board and says “First, we assume a spherical cow,” much to the confusion of the farmer.

Cows, of course, are not spherical, and the use of generalities and fictional models to explain real events is a strategy used frequently in many of the sciences. However, these practices differ greatly between the fields, especially between physics and biology.