The university of Illinois has decided to cancel a planned lecture by James Watson, one of the two co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. As you might guess, the reason for this development is that Dr. Watson is guilty of thought crimes that are not allowed at colleges and universities where degrees are sold.
As we have pointed out before, the field of genetic research is providing evidence on a regular basis that we are strongly influenced by our genetic inheritance and that not only is this true of individuals, it is true of groups as well.
But the modern left who control our institutions of higher learning, will not allow their religious belief in blank slate equalism to be questioned, even by a famous Nobel Prize winner. And so those views and ideas that are anathema to the leftist guardians of The Narrative will not be heard at The University of Illinois, at least anytime soon. The academic establishmentarians have decided to prevent their students from hearing anything would not fit with the accepted doctrines.
There are those who have argued that the days of the current academic university system are numbered and as I consider this story I am inclined to agree. Students are paying out ever larger sums of money for degrees that are ever more useless. It is widely understood that today’s college exists primarily for the purpose of indoctrinating students in leftist ideology and little else. The doctrines of leftist Marxism have infected nearly every area of the modern university, rendering them worthless as an environment for learning anything that might be true or even useful.
At the same time, the development of the internet has made knowledge and information available to everyone for a minimal cost and often for the mere price of an internet connection. If one wants to learn about any subject at all, one only has to search for it. Practically any area of knowledge is available on the web for little to no money. One has only to put forth the effort to acquire the knowledge in question. When businesses and students come to this realization, how long will the current system be able to last?
