Colleges Made Themselves Obsolete

In questions no one is really asking…

Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? – New Yorker

Much like the New Yorker, colleges made themselves obsolete. What used to be a cultural consensus is now just the virtue signaling of a leftist fringe. And, much like cable subscriptions, more and more people are cutting the cord.

College made itself obsolete well before AI by becoming an echo chamber where there was no meaningful knowledge transmitted, only ideological indoctrination, where the western canon and any larger tradition had been tossed aside in favor of the malicious destruction of the past, and where there was nothing to learn, only slogans to repeat “late stage capitalism”, “systemic racism”, “heteropatriarchal capitalism” that made everything into a target for mass destruction.

Professions which had used a college diploma as a marker of knowledge and competence have learned hard over the last decade that it’s worse than worthless, that the average Amazon warehouse worker has more competence and reliability than some woke grad in a ‘studies’ discipline whose only two drives are demanding more workable wokeness and taking ‘mental health days’.

At this point college would hardly exist if we didn’t keep subsidizing it. And the economic sustainability of it is becoming unviable. Men are already opting out. Colleges are not so much graduating doctors, lawyers and scientists as HR bureaucrats for dying industries.

AI is just the death blow.