Those intellectual homes we call Universities have long been on tenuous ground as preservers of freedom. In the minds of our best and brightest - students and administrators - suppressing is a mode of compassionate and thoughtful defense. What fecal rot have we allowed to set in on the grass of our soiled institutions of higher learning? It is to tread a thinnish line to condemn part -if not an entire - system of upper education. If insignificant animations drawn in a distant land have the capabilities of exposing the death of healthy debate then perhaps we do what we must to revive this precious commodity.
Freedom is dead on campuses. The University of St. Mary's and Prince Edward Island have reminded us of this. Their reactions -save some brave souls - to the the impending wave of Muslim wrath is all too common in our schools. So sensitive are we to not offend we find ourselves on our knees with our wrists twisted in mangled pain. The one place where all people of all nationalities can bond in a brotherhood of intellectual exchange has chosen to immolate freedom of thought and speech. Stifen and swiffer away these young minds of the future slated to shape and form our collective future. The beautiful minds of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison are but mere mirages for posterity.
One-dimensional debate dictate the arguments of the offended and thus the plaintiffs. Liberty and secularism - as defendants- simply do not figure into their minds when assessing the cartoons.
For its disreputable part, Concordia University - by which a History degree was earned and long denounced - dismay and disappointment is the operative words to describe the spineless individuals who roam its decaying bricks. Within its weak arms they hold the hand of tyranny on its campus.
Perhaps the cartoons traveled a little far. However, the reaction to it is a shocking validation of the utter lack of good judgment and common sense among those who feel attacked.
Debate is about freedom and freedom allows for our most humanistic of values to flower and grow but Universities are corporations now. Its administrators operate like CEO's ensuring that their shareholders are taken well care of. Some have become a little to insidiously and comfortably partisan either with political party's or ideologies. All in a day's work in a post modern life.
In the skeleton halls of our schools that bequeath upon our future minds supposed tools that exercise the mind we find nothing but ghosts and murderers. Universities are fine for those single-minded souls out to get a degree in esteemed and important disciplines in the mold of accounting or engineering. It may as well be for those such specific oriented minds, the micro-management of hollow intellectualism is what we all excel at.
The price has been rendered and it is high.
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