The latest explosive controversy engrossing our effete and degenerated culture concerned an incident that happened yesterday at a Ford F-150 assembly plant in Dearborn, Michigan. The American Head-of-State was touring the facility when a worker overcome with rage began shouting at him at the President responded with an obscene gesture. For this act of lese majestie, the worker was suspended, but since has gained considerable wealth---around $100,000 at last count---through a crowd-sourcing platform.
What caused this worker to take such a stand and imperil his livelihood? Was it the war crimes carried out against Venezuela? Was it destabilizing Europe and the Middle East? Was it over support for the Genocide in Gaza?
Or was it over creating paramilitary units that occupy American cities, kidnap people off the streets and gun down protesters? Was it because DOGE turned over the Federal Government to Corporate thugs, or wealth transfers to globalist cartels, or building internment camps, or the suppression of the Bill of Rights?
No: this worker was angered over the single most important thing in the minds of Americans today---more urgent and pressing than any of the above-mentioned issues---muh Epstein Files.
There are times writing articles on current events that one just doesn't know what to say. The irrational fixation the public has with sexual conduct (heterosexual conduct, anyway), the vulgarity of the President, the Media Cartels making a big deal out of this, and a White House spokesxhe telling us that “A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the president gave an appropriate and unambiguous response,” all of this is a symbolic moment of the level to which our Culture has sunk.
In fairness to the Ford Motor Company, suspending the worker was probably the appropriate action: I'm not sure what else they could have done under the circumstances. One thing we are certain of, however, is that this will debated hotly on Social Media and political websites while ICE continues its Reign of Terror and the Pentagon invades Danish Territory and touches off a war in Europe.
At some point, we really need to have a discussion of what has clearly become a general erosion of the American mind, or, more precisely, the American Character. There has been recently, among Academia, some commentary that we are seeing "a rise of anti-intellectualism" among the American Public. There is truth to this, although the people promulgating this concern are wholly blind to their own complicity in bringing about the situation. There is a widespread public distrust of the Intelligentsia in the United States today, but this distrust is wholly deserved. Yesterday, I had occasion to read an essay by a Dead White Male who's no longer studied, writing about a similar situation in Europe in 1936:
"It seems to be characteristic of our period that norms and truths which were once believed to be absolute, universal, and eternal...are being questioned. In light of the thought of modern investigation, much of what was taken for granted is declared to be in need of demonstration and proof. The criteria of proofs themselves have become subjects of dispute. We are witnessing not only a general distrust of the validity of ideas, but of the motives of those who assert them. This situation is aggravated by a war of all against all in the intellectual arena where personal self-aggrandizement rather than truth has become the coveted prize."
This could have been written about the state of American Academia---at all levels---in 2026 as it was in 1930s Europe. The sheer level of corruption at the University has led to the situation in which it finds itself: distrusted by everyone because everyone knows that American Academia is morally and functionally on the level of an Organized Crime Syndicate which will sell its prestige to the highest bidder. This isn't a situation that started just last January either, despite many of these Academics pretending that it did.
When a culture loses faith in the integrity of its Intelligentsia, they become easy prey for demagogues and charlatans because they assume, quite naturally, that what they're being told by 'experts' is a complete lie, and they become vulnerable to other liars. In a functional society, the Intelligentsia are presumed to have expertise from study and well-reasoned and deliberately thought-out positions on certain subjects. In a corrupt society like ours, having a prestigious name (heavily backed by Special Interest dollars) is enough to qualify anybody as an 'expert,' hence, in the Public Eye, an Ivy-League PhD and a beanie-wearing, goat-bearded Zoomer pontificating on X with retarded sound-bytes are on the same plane of credibility. In fact, in the latter case, it's presumed that the 'influencer' has, at least, thought about a particular issue and not simply crafted an eloquent dissertation acceptable to Corporate Donors.
That is part of where the problem lies. People without a reliable class of intellectuals are left to sort out complex issues on their own, without the depth of study needed to comprehend them fully. Thus, they also turn to Trash Culture issues like muh Epstein Files and other Infotainment fluff because such 'issues' don't require a lot of deep thought. Compare that to the issue over Greenland: how many people know about US-Danish relations, the history of the NATO Alliance, or the geopolitical position of the island? That is why we need reliable experts; instead what we have are hired spokesmen with purchased degrees. Thus, it's much easier for these same interests through their equally mercenary Media to play upon Americans' sexual frustrations and channel all of that pent-up libido into fake anger (but genuine envy) about rich men visiting a sex-tourist island decades ago.
I'm not certain how we can restore any level of trust in Academia again. The system itself is too corrupt for self-correction; and certainly the interests upholding it have no desire that it should change. Suggestions would be welcome, and badly needed.
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