Curzon cites three passages from a Brussels Journal article that claims that western universities have been “Reduced to little hippie factories!”:
- The vast majority of Middle East Studies programs are funded by the Saudis, resulting in the promotion of the Wahhabi view of Islam and buying influence over what Westerners hear about Islam. The result has been that academia is unable to take a critical look at Islam, combined with the aversion to criticize anything non-Western.
- While Chinese, Indian, Korean and other Asian Universities are graduating millions of engineers and scientists every year, Western Universities have been reduced to “hippie factories” teaching about the evils of the West.
- One of the hallmarks of Western civilization has been our thirst for asking questions about everything. Political Correctness is thus anti-Western both in its form and in its intent.
The cited article also includes this passage from Robert Kaplan:
“Writing about the collapse of nations such as Somalia, the Atlantic Monthly’s Robert D. Kaplan referred to the “citizens” of such “states” as “re-primitivized man.”“When lifelong Torontonians are hot for decapitation, when Yorkshiremen born and bred and into fish ‘n’ chips and cricket and lousy English pop music self-detonate on the London Tube, it would seem that the phenomenon of “re-primitivized man” has been successfully exported around the planet. It’s reverse globalization: The pathologies of the remotest backwaters now have franchise outlets in every Western city.”