The very first thing I wrote about this event–which I stopped myself from posting because I thought I should be polite to the board, give them the benefit of the doubt, etc.–was this:
I see no reason to believe that the dominant trustees are anything other than the kind of drooling zombies whose impaired perceptions of the actual world, colored by a left-of-center conscience, prompt them to nod along with Tom Friedman books and go: “Why, yes, the actual future is the same as futuristic scenarios! Since obviously we can’t shape the future, we have to adapt to the futuristic scenarios! And that will make things better! Better! BETTER!” [CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP! CLAP!]
It turns out I was right. According to this post , Toni “Antioch Cornell” Murdock has said:
I believe Antioch is positioned to be a player in the new world described by Thomas Friedman in his recent book The World Is Flat.
She is so ignorant of the actual workings of the world that she buys a piece of big business puffery like that. She is in charge of the fortunes of a College that should be leading the world in fighting economic colonization but that has instead been kicked to the curb. They gave someone that intellectually naive so much power over a place of “higher education.”
Antioch must be cursed . . .
