From Prof. Eric Cunningham of Gonzaga:
“The function of the university” wrote Thomas Merton, “is to help men and women save their souls, and in so doing, to save their society: from what? From the hell of meaninglessness, of obsession, of complex artifice, of systematic lying, of criminal evasions and neglects, of self-destructive futilities.”
For those seeking to avoid that “hell of meaninglessness”: James V. Schall’s “On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs.”
I always suspected that's what universities were for. Indeed, I almost majored in Self-Destructive Futility Avoidance, but went with Solipsistic Banality Evasion instead.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJust recently I had the opportunity to be in a bar in Dupont Circle, where the bartender unctuously informed me just how many colleges are in DC. I would be happy if universities would merely strive to be worthy of the pride with which their communities hold them.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"obsession, complex artifice, systematic lying, criminal evasions and neglects, self-destructive futilities." -- sounds exactly like the standard behavior of our expensively educated political elites. Weiner in a nutshell! Oh well, I guess college doesn't save people from those problems after all.
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