Micah

rincewind.run

16 October 2026 18:32

called it baby

Zach Weinersmith

zachweinersmith.bsky.social

16 October 2026 18:31

Here's the passage, from 1887

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

bretdevereaux.bsky.social

28 September 2026 13:33

Nor is this some new-fangled idea - you'll find it back in the 1947 Truman Commission Report on Higher Education (screen-shotted below), produced by those wild-eyed idealists who had just finished ::checks notes:: the Second World War.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux

bretdevereaux.bsky.social

28 September 2026 13:33

And to be honest, though the systems are so complex you can never prove causation, the fact that our descent into the dumbest politics follows on four decades of systematic, institutional disinvestment from the liberal arts seems almost too on the nose and yet here we are.