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Boulder Buffoonery – Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill at CU Boulder

by | 12:41 pm, March 6, 2009 | Comments Off

Random musings on the so-called “True Academic Freedom” confab

Bill Ayers forever ruined “Life of Brian” for me.

In the midst of a rambling, hour+ long unfocused discourse on “resistance”, “protest”, and “dissent” Ayers quoted a truly funny scene from the great Monty Python movie in which Brian, a reluctant messiah, addresses a crowd of sycophants who are hanging on his every word, admonishing them to think for themselves.  “You have a mind of your own”, he says.  The crowd responds in unison, “We have a mind of our own.”

The irony of the situation was completely lost on the Boulder sheeple gathered to hang on every word of their momentary messiah Ayers, as they nodded, clapped, and baa’d in unison in complete and uncritical agreement – and, no doubt, also lost on Ayers himself.

Ayers talked at length about education – and what a “real” education should be – actually making some good points about critical thinking, challenging dogmas, and perceiving the world as it is, and not the way those in power want you to see it.  Although he talked about the need to reform our educational system, he not only gave a pass to the current educational establishment, he actually advocated for more of the same – on financial steroids.

If Bill Ayers was your progressive “brain” of the evening, the following presenter, obscure “academic” Derek Jensen, was your brain on drugs (or whatever intellectual pollution on which the assembled sheeple gorge themselves).  Jensen (or presenter #2 – who does #2 work for?) trotted out every tired trope, every jury-rigged “j’accuse”, and every misbegotten metaphor (actually, he used that particular word a LOT) he could pull out of his….  brain.  Number 2 chronicled 10,000 years of cultural oppression (which culture?  Human culture – all of it! Down with civilization!) in an even more disjointed, rambling, expletive-laden “presentation” complete with obligatory slideshow chock-full of leftist heroes.

Closing out the evening, and mercifully brief, was supposed headliner and cigar-store Indian Ward Churchill.  (The only real Indian I observed at the event was outside protesting with a sign declaring “No wampum for fake Indian Ward Churchill”).  Churchill didn’t really say much (thankfully) – the majority of his time on stage was spent whining about his upcoming trial and soliciting the crowd to show up in support (jury intimidation, anyone?). Kinda makes you wonder if the organizers think they got their wampum’s worth…

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