{"id":126249,"date":"2015-11-13T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126249"},"modified":"2015-11-13T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T18:00:15","slug":"yale-mizzou-and-others-training-a-generation-of-proto-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126249","title":{"rendered":"Yale, Mizzou and Others\u2014Training a Generation of Proto-Fascists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2015\/11\/12\/Yale-Mizzou-and-Others-Training-Generation-Proto-Fascists\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Tuesday\u2019s Republican presidential primary debate, Senator Marco Rubio wondered aloud why Americans insist that the only legitimate option after compulsory education is college. \u201cFor the life of me, I don\u2019t know why we have stigmatized vocational education,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cWelders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less [sic] philosophers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Events this week prove Rubio right, and not just in terms of the American economy. University campuses these days produce far fewer philosophers and more outright fascists in shutting down speech and scrutiny. Two incidents in the past fortnight have shone a bright light on the failure of academics to protect the kind of free speech that succeeds in producing philosophers \u2013 or educated adults in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. In Tuesday\u2019s Republican presidential primary debate, Senator Marco Rubio wondered aloud why Americans insist that the only legitimate option after compulsory education is college. \u201cFor the life of me, I don\u2019t know why we have stigmatized vocational education,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cWelders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less [sic] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126250,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126249\/revisions\/126250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}