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the failure of colleges

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Published: 24 Nov 2023 › Updated: 24 Nov 2023the failure of colleges

the failure of colleges

So i am going back to college again.

And what i am learning is that college isn't a place you can think, experiment, or explore anymore....at least in the whole debate sense. Of course they want students to explore homosexuality, and get all the abortions the democratic party can eat. But yeah, if you say that as a matter of faith those are sins and people will go to hell for them...well that's probably forbidden and you'll be punished.

it is a place where you cannot say, think, or do, well anything regarding ideas. It is completely paralyzing. By equity, I am starting to think they want people equally stupid and molded. Or equally shabby as Ayn Rand put it.

Also these students are not being exposed to Rand's philosophy of, it is not a matter of who will let me, it is a matter of who will stop me. All they really know is being stopped, and getting a better grade the better they are at proverbially drawing between the lines. Ever seen those abstract line construction puzzles where you really have to draw outside of the box to solve a problem [or heck even using non-euclidean geometries]? Today's college student's can't exactly do that, proverbially speaking.

You may hear the claim of a grown elephant on a chain on a peg in the ground. The elephant could free itself, but at an early age it learned that it can't so it doesn't even try any more. That is what college is doing to people these days.

Even the simplest solutions are effectively forbidden due to this cognitive paralysis, and the values of the university are the first that come to mind when problem solving. As one university president put it, putting DIE in the classroom gives students critical thinking skills. [back to me] So their critical thinking skills effectively limited to these DIE indoctrination centers. Hence, it likely explains why Budweiser turned to Dylan Mulvaney to try to expand their customer base. I am pretty sure the trans community really doesn't care whether a beer company panders to a single "celebrity" member of their community or not. Most have their own metrics of choosing their beers which is no different than all people who drink beer. Even if there were a small subset that did care, the company should have tried to pick a more niche product. Budweiser's marketing effectively re-branded itself as tranny fluid, and the customer based abandoned them. I looked at the location of a local Budweiser distribution the other day, and there is no sign left and not vehicles on their lot. I am sure the employees were hard working and did their job well, but what cost them their job was an executive level marketing expert.

I think i heard Tim Pool, say that he would rather hire a person selling bootleg dvds on the streets than a person with a marketing degree. I thought that was kind of silly.Ironically, that is my present field of study [well not yet] and now I am thinking he's right.

Given how the university has treated me, a customer, so far I am having second thoughts about starting my degree next term. If their ridiculous speech codes get in the way of customer service to the point it destroys all value in earning the degree, then how can they really offer courses in marketing. Seriously, why am I paying money into a marketing program from a university that actively is failing marketing in practice.

In the end, companies today just care about the paper, but I think that as time continues more companies will agree with Tim Pool. That guy selling bootleg dvds may be breaking the laws to get the job done, but the reality is: he is making customers; he is giving them value; he is getting to know his customers and what they want; he's learned no limitations on what he can do; and he is learning how to get things done. he's not carrying a whole blockbuster video's worth of inventory; he's peddling what he knows will sell. All while the college educated are being boxed in and restrained like that elephant.

If I wanted to own a legitimate copy of song of the south, Disney would say "Hell no"-meanwhile they are pushing woke programs and shows that no one is watching and destroying once valuable IP in the process and taking heavy losses. That bootleg dvd guys sounds kind of smart. Disney in hoping to Expand their customer base came at the expense of their Disney magic; the quality of story telling was lost, the lore was lost, parents no longer trust Disney around their kids, and they are killing off, replacing, or rendering impotent fan favorite heroes. Like Disney pretends it didn't learn from Habro's the 1986 transformer's movie, where hasbro killed off Optimus prime upsetting everyone. It had a ripple effect back then as other movie scripts (g.i. joe at least) were quickly changed. Disney's once loyal customers lost interest and movie franchises are effectively dead to them. If you are upset that Disney replaced your favorite hero (like hasbro did with Optimus), Disney will call you a racist to their defense.

Meanwhile, Super Saiyan God blue Goku was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. That was awesome to see him that relevant in America. There is a big difference between delivering value where people want to see more, and pandering crap to minority groups. Victoria secret recently learned that lesson, although it might not be the case that plus size women are a minority. Their sales are down, because their customers, who traditionally focused on the ideal of beauty which manifested through their supermodels, didn't want to identify as fat undesirable slob replacements. I am not exactly into womenswear, so I don't know if there is any difference in material between brand A and brand B. But what VS was selling was an ideal of beauty, and they threw it all away to try to be more inclusive. If they wanted to appeal to the plus size market, they should have created a new line to perhaps sell at major retailers and their online stores. But odds are, assuming vs already sold plus size things, plus size women were probably already buying VS because it made them feel better about themselves-until the marketing changed.

Again, modern marketing executives are so boxed into this whole diversity, inclusion, and equity nonsense, that their proposed solutions to increasing sales will most likely result in destroying their own branding. They don't even know who their own customers are and what they want, nor do they even care to listen to them. They'll toss away 10 million loyal customers in the hand, to get 2 they think might be in a bush-which were probably already in the hand to begin with. Tim is right, and it is because our universities are crippling students and not just in the pocketbook.

There is little to no value left to college; Title ix and the woke agenda I think have killed it. it's going to cripple more companies and more brands in the future.

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Hive is not a place for free speech, you have a social credit score that destroys your reputation and could hide your posts-and push you back to traditional social media. When someone using the name first amendment has to tell you that, having been chased off on the irrational whims of the gatekeepers, you know things are bad. Consider also that one of the main whales, a Dan Notestein, operates a non-profit called peer verity that seems to be some kind of censorship tool. So when you hear that Hive/block chain is a place for free speech, don't believe it. The audience you'll find off chain is larger than you'll ever find on chain, I'v steer national debates countless times across all media platforms multiple times-including top network Tv stations and the international press. You can't do that in w3, the ecosystem doesn't support that yet-and at the present moment x, or twitter, on w2 has the present dynamics. On hive, You are a tree in a forest, on some deserted island thousands of miles from anywhere-and hive watchers, or should we say valueplan, don't want anyone on the mainland know we exist. If you want to be heard, You have to know something about how the media business works-and they are not here. So whether you make a quarter on hive for a post, or your self-vote is worth hundreds of dollars, nothing you say here will ever be deemed important at the present dynamics. Valueplan can spend millions of dollars for marketing to attract tourist to this island, only for their tourist to step in a steemy pile of bull s___, and be served that same pile of s__ for dinner, and leave telling others how bad the experience was. You believed in hive and its potential, but the governance and their censorship arm doesn't believe in you-they'll even destroy entire communities just because the community leaders were trying to tolkenize developing a community here, when there is hardly anyone left anyways. They are not thankful people use this platform, they are actively hostile to it. The dynamics of hive governance has to change if it is to have a future, otherwise you are wasting your time-and money. Many of those behind hive governance got into crypto early effectively winning the lottery, many were part of a prior chain called bitshares, and were part if the notorious ninjamining about a decade ago. In essence they hit the lottery and have money and power, they don't know how to operate a business to the public, and despite having no merit they think they are better than you. They already destroyed bit shares, hive is next if they remain in control. This same team is behind valueplan, responsible for attracting new users-or so they claim. Since they exhausted the market in the developed world and started the bright idea of onboarding the third world-which is unlikely to have water, electricty, internet, and disposable income. Nothing against them, but this is not a solid investment plan, something where people are more likely to liquidate the new assets released from the DAO. The average IQ is typically about retarded to put it mildly, so the expectation for them to stake hive dollars and have a stablecoin is laughable, and what to do with them other than to liquidate them below fair market value. It should also be noted that Dan notesteins planned charity on bit shares, that he hates government regulations, and it is fair comment to assume the Value of hive is being destroyed to run''s Dan's charity. While valueplan is full of fraud and waste itself, the bulk of the existing governance is a fraud not interested in developing a community-but in destroying it for their own power or financial gain. I seen the price tank from when hivewatchers targetted me, from 20-40 cents, down to a about dime now. If something happens badly to bitcoin or crypto, particularly a systemic threat to the crypto market (like say the democrats winning an election), or if the current dynamics continue then expect to see further declines. I haven't seen "the Koreans" try to market manipulate the coin in ages, did they lose interest in hive too? You see the whales pretending to care about the bleeding through the dao, particularly with value plan, but they offer nothing of substance to fix it-"they" need the fraud to continue. They are scared they will soon complete the repeat of what they allowed happen to bitshares. Oh, the distinction is we have a hair cut rule. The hair cut rule might prevent infinite coins, but it will not stop the complete devaluation of the chain. Hive will not be saved through the current governance, it's impossible. in time, the core projects will not be funded. A decision will have to be made to fire devs, or shut down mission critical projects-whom we probably don't need devs for anyways, let alone multiple full time devs. There will no tangible reward, and the audience is already pretty much non-existent as they've been scared away. It's not like we can fire the current governance, they are lottery winning ninjaminers. When the coin does go to zero, don't expect them to sell a dead coin-dead coins and dead wallets tend to be forgotten about unless new value is found. Dead coins also tend to be delisted. If someone were to try to save it post apocalypse, these whales would come back to restore the old order. If these accounts become dormant (their bots may continue to up/down vote and post AI/reports) as to allow new interest to take over, the first thing that must be done is to find a legal means of rendering them impotent. Not like Justin sun, but perhaps in the form if an air drop to the remaining active community, or to a central planner who can give the community a new direction.

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