Quite randomly today, I settled on writing about two not-so-much-in-the-news issues on the agenda of the most incompetent secretary of defense in the history of our country.
In an obvious attempt to dumb down our future military leadership so that he is, finally, the smartest one in the room (because, as they say, “In The Land of The Blind, The One-Eyed Man is King”), the current “I’ve Seen Better Cabinets In Ikea”, one-breath away from Supreme, military leader with no military experience, announced earlier in the week that the Pentagon will stop sending candidates for top military leadership to MIT, Princeton, Columbia, Brown and Yale for graduate level education, in favor of paying for them to attend such classes at Christian schools. These cuts are even more damaging as they include, not only graduate scholarships, but also research money provided by the military.
Harvard had already been de-listed. The reason was no secret. When he cut ties to Harvard, the secretary said, “Harvard is woke. The War Department is not.” Well, duh. No wonder they can’t keep their eyes and their brains open, since, as the press has reported (those who still have access to the Pentagon), staff at the DOD has been rendered catatonic by days of stuffing their faces with lobster tails, lavishly supplied by the budget of what this cabinet member calls the War Department.
Why cut these military programs? God forbid that members of the military should wake up to the fact that they will be commanding troops sent as cannon fodder into a vanity war by an orange blimp. They might even refuse illegal orders as their Code of Military Conduct requires.
Not that the poor cabinet member with a drinking addiction (many federal staff refer to him, confidentially, of course, as Pete Kegsbreath) cares much about codes of conduct. He avers that he need not follow “No stupid Rules of Engagement” but will rather fight “War on our terms with maximum authority (residing in the president).”
This lackluster alumnus of Princeton and Harvard knows only too well how dangerous universities are to those who need to cling to their ignorance in order to keep doing their jobs. He calls their academic ethos antithetical to military values. Like mindless obedience? Even AI would see the ethical problems.
Of course, simple attendance at these schools does not always result in an “awakening” of the mind and conscience. More is required. You need to skip a few beer busts, for instance, and go to class. Reports on these programs have also emphasized how important it is for these future high-ranking officers to experience day-to-day life with civilians in order to maintain a more balanced approach to the decisions they will be called upon to make. Like, maybe, choosing not to bomb a girls’ elementary school.
Owning the Press
The same cabinet member was also in the news, briefly, this week, for saying that he just couldn’t wait for Larry Ellison to take over CNN. Because, in his mind, if you own a news outlet, you shape the news to suit your master. This includes, not only the reporting of the news, but the far-flung endeavors involved in gathering it, or not gathering it, in the first place.
This is, of course, the same cabinet member who has banned news photographers at the Pentagon because he found the pictures of his endlessly grimacing and glowering face to be unflattering. I can see why he can’t wait to have yet another outlet bend the knee to him and his Don Corleone.
Let’s hope that the many good journalists at CNN engage in bad conduct and let slip a few insults, that their news photographers continue to shoot and ship everything they see, that the rebellion spreads to expose the lies and the cover-ups, especially inside the Ellison operation. (Can’t wait for the Ellison Files). I’m also looking forward to the many alternative sites growing in the face of the whack-a-mole impulses of the current regime.
In the end, education is meant to be dangerously awakening. The more you know, the better you choose. To combat this intelligence, which has always posed the greatest danger to dictatorship, you have to keep as many people as possible from advancing themselves through education and then you have to control all the information flowing to a curious world.
I say good luck with that.
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