Postmodernist Progressivism Ruins Everything It Touches
Every institution important to America has been corrupted by postmodernist progressivism.
Daniel Henninger, in his Wednesday column in the WSJ, noted:
"The hyperpoliticization of these important professions is being carried out by people once known as the best and the brightest. It reflects a steady moral corruption of crucial institutions. It normalizes the hypocrisy of standing on the moral high ground to deploy the lowest political means.”
It is behind the paywall, but if you have a subscription (you can get one for $1 a week), Henninger’s opinion piece is well worth a read.
Henninger points out the results of a process of degradation of our institutions that has been apparent to many of us for a very long time - when our institutions are utilized by partisans in naked political warfare the result is always the same - people first begin to lose trust in them, and as the process continues, eventually refuse to trust them.
And with good reason.
Think about the once trusted institutions in which the American public has lost trust:
Academia (especially the Ivy League schools)
Science (pretty much any branch)
Medicine (the AMA and the American Academy of Pediatrics)
Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, etc.)
Religion (progressive sects that have gone woke)
Wall Street (Investment firms like Blackrock)
Business and Corporate America (woke corporations colluding with government)
Arts and Entertainment (Disney and Hollywood cranking out social engineering and propaganda)
Sports (social activism on the court, field and pitch)
Technology (Google Gemini cranking out DEI revisionist history)
Media (widespread concerns about “disinformation” – which means censorship)
Law (Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Chutkan, Engoron, need I say more?)
DOJ (Merrick Garland and Eric Holder)
Military (transgenderism and DEI in our fighting forces)
CDC and WHO (liars who lie)
Congress (impeachments, investigations, and election corruption, oh my!)
I’m sure you can think of more, but every single one has been politicized to the point where every pronouncement from them must be taken with a grain of salt – and some have deteriorated so far, just ignored.
That's a huge reason society is so frustrating and tiring these days.
Institutions destroy themselves by leaving their charters behind to pursue goals they never were created to pursue.
That’s what is wrong with universities – we have no need for institutions of learning that do not teach. There is no need for religious institutions that have abandoned religious principles. Likewise, and to a lesser but growing degree, we have no use for sports organizations more concerned with “social justice” than the quality of entertainment product they produce.
What possible use is there for any institution if it abandons its charter?
If after seeing advertisements on TV, on the Internet and in the local papers all week for $19.99 oil changes at Jiffy Lube and you rolled into a shop with a Jiffy-Lube sign out front and people inside milling about inside wearing Jiffy-Lube uniforms - only to find out that they had decided to stop doing oil changes and teach hot yoga instead, you would probably be significantly confused.
What would you do if the manager told you that the franchise was now focused on metaphysical oil changes for your soul instead of servicing your car here in the physical world?
If you had any sense at all, you would leave and never go back to Jiffy-Lube for an oil change ever again.
It's not that people have lost the ability to think for themselves, I think that ability is increasing as a matter of self-preservation - but constantly seeing and hearing so many things that just don't pass the smell test is exhausting. As Henninger noted, the hypocrisy of occupying the alleged "high ground" while using that perch to do despicable things presents a constant contradiction that saps our mental energy.
If you accept my Jiffy Lube premise, why should we continue to go back to the CDC or WHO for health information, any university to educate your kids or attend failing religious institutions for spiritual instruction? Why would we trust any conviction in any of the lawfare against President Trump or any J6 defendant?
Albert Einstein is said to have defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.”
This is that.
You are correct, the "list" is far from complete.
Genius