I would really love to be able to go back and dig into the original basis for all this, and find out precisely what went into those lawsuits that took down the aptitude and job testing regime we had in place back in the old days. From the standpoint of actual effect, the whole thing starts to look awfully fishy, once you examine all the “pro bono” lawsuits coming out of the academic legal world that destroyed that old testing/employment regime. If you were to posit that it was a criminal conspiracy, and then produce some evidence that the people behind those lawsuits did what they did with malice aforethought, and an understanding that the likely replacement would be the use of education-gained credentials as a proxy for what they had been testing for… Well, you’d probably find it easy to convince a lot of people that it was done deliberately.

More likely–Just the unholy concatenation of liberal do-gooders blind to the actual effect of what they were doing, and the end result of enshrining academia and a college degree as basic working credentials are just an unintentional side-benefit for what they did.

If you go back over the last century, and examine a whole lot of things like the deinstitutionalization of the mentally deranged, along with the liberalization of the legal system, there are a lot of things that really start to make you wonder. I mean, seriously–The end effects of all these things have been universally inimical to public life in our Republic. I can buy one or two accidental things working out badly, but all of it…? You really start to wonder…

At this stage of my life, it wouldn’t take a hell of a lot to convince me that there’s been some grand conspiracy, because it becomes awfully hard to accept that all this damage to the public commons just happened coincidentally through a series of unfortunate accidents…