This Is What Passes For Higher Learning Today

Princeton University, the most prestigious undergraduate institution in the land, has declared that its employees and students should use neologisms in lieu of the word "man" whenever possible. In a brave new world where the mere utterance of a contrary opinion triggers people into epileptic fits, Princeton has chosen to swim with the tide rather than against it.

Anyone contemplating the education of his children should steer them far away from the modern university, which is a socialist, misandrist, anti-Western, schizophrenic cesspool. It's bad enough that these asylums are unconstitutionally subsidized with federal taxes, but to add insult to injury, students and parents must pay a king's ransom for the privilege of turning a mind into mush.

In America, of course, nobody really cares about education or intellect. Credentials are all that matter, since we are a nation of shallow consumers who judge a product by slick advertising and labels rather than actual content, which requires effort to discern. Garbage in, garbage out.

The good news is that there's no need to tear this system of "higher learning" apart -- it will fall apart by virtue of its own internal rot. Larger numbers of young men are forgoing this miasma to do something worthwhile with their lives and keep their sanity and finances intact.