The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis
Like mass media and mass commerce, the average university is on the brink of collapse. Its structure is a rotting legacy of the Industrial Age. For years, anybody who wanted to learn on their own lacked the means to do so. Now, anybody with an internet connection has access to information. Harvard and Stanford will be okay, but dark days are ahead ... See more
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite as well as those equipped with narrow, specialized vocational skills, know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpl
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Elite colleges are admitting primarily those students whose social background allows them to provide an application profile that fits what the universities regard as “their kind of student,” much as it was in the 1920s. On the margins, they accept students of protected classes who may well deserve to be there on their own merits. What is excluded a
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
