Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk has now narrated at least two Prager U videos, and I liked what he told about college education not being for everyone, and that is where young people are lost, now becoming true-believing Progressives.

He apparently is actively recruiting young people not to go to college, or to reconsider attending university if they are on campus. 

I approve of his efforts, with one important qualifier.

Ayn Rand stands tall in promoting that each individual exercise her mental faculties to the maximum. We cannot think too much, too logically, be too eager to learn more, to ask why, what, when, why, really? and why not? We cannot learn enough or know too much, and we must be thinking originally and creatively as best we can, as much as we can, as often as we can, outside the box, every day of our lives.

Back to Charlie Kirk's ant-college movement. Formal learning, especially advanced formal learning is not if it ever was that much connected to advanced state of student learning, or the nurturing of intellectual giants.

We do want much intellectual decentralization, diversity of centers of learning, anarchism, outside of Academia, to occur. We do not want to wipe out Academia or end formal programs or their certifications, but we do want the university monopoly of prestige, authority, god-like status as experts in every field, and uniformity of thought, to end.

We may be anti-college as institutions,  but we are never, I say never, anti-learning, and Kirk must be careful to send that message to parents and students alike.

I envisage a generation of average citizens that are, each of them, intellectual giants, deep, subtle, practical, original thinkers. They may be formally educated or autodidacts. They may be polymaths or geniuses at one think, but a mass society of great-souled, individual-living, individuator-anarchist supercitizens, upper middle class on average in wealth, making money, fame, advances of all kinds, and living and enjoying life to the fullest in the America, this Jerusalem on the hill, a massive, sprawling country of constitutional republicans and capitalists, where all are welcome, and all are enjoined to enjoy their personal power and liberty, without depriving the neighbor of his share, or allowing him to rob them of their natural bounty from the Divine Couple.

For those that Kirk urges to abandon university, I offer in exchange and replacement, the life of the self-actualized, great soul and living angel, and that person will really use her mind, and enjoy the exhilarating awareness of what it is to know and understand how the world is and works.