No Such Thing As A Smart School
Let’s just say the evidence is inconclusive. It’s not as if these are the opinions of random wackos, since as we’ve discussed numerous times, every idiot is entitled to their opinion. No, this point of view comes from learned scholars, professors no less, at the prestigious King Fahd university, or King FU as it’s known to grads. Presumably therefore, their opinions carry some weight among their peers and certainly to the unenlightened masses. As evidence, one of the scholars, Kamal Subhi a former professor at the university, cites the numerous instances of women unabashedly leering at him while he sat innocently at cafes.
Being made to feel cheap and as an objectified subject of desire caused him great distress and since he is a learned man, the only rational conclusion he could draw was that this was the result of women being allowed to drive. He concluded that the natural consequence of this would be the complete disappearance of virgins. Apparently at the King Fahd university, the greater one’s ability to leap great chasms of logic, the more celebrated are their opinions. Some of the less widely publicized scholarly papers from the university are:
–Facial hair and the correlation to rectal itching
–Excessive laughing and their effects on literacy
–Penguin ownership and the decline of math skills
–Eyeglasses as a subversive western influence
Having a pedigree from a University of course confers some validity to the studies, at least in some quarters. After all, most societies respect diligent scholarly works. While there may be some that scoff at some of these ‘studies’ and their conclusions, consider some of the widely accepted postulates that we all accept (mostly) as truths in this part of the world:
–The Big Bang Theory: not the TV show, but rather the brilliant notion that at some point in history, for lack of a better explanation, the universe just showed up, the equivalent of an I Dream Of Jeannie blink.
–The planet Earth, after countless millions of years of existence (if you believe the guesses) is in its death throes because of man’s existence. Only taxation will fix this.
–The government has your best interests at heart.
In this part of the world, there are truckloads of people with ‘academic’ qualifications offering similarly questionable opinions masquerading as scholarly thought just like our pal Kamal Subhi in Saudi Arabia. By now, we all know of Bill Ayers, founder of the ‘Weather Underground’ who openly advocates for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. This is a guy who still retains academic credibility at the University of Chicago even though he was convicted of setting off bombs at federal buildings during his more active youth.
The media also loves to display the racist rants of Dr. Cornell West as if they were any more lucid than Kamal Subhi’s opinions on women and driving. The opinions are really quite amusing if they weren’t so dangerous. The danger is that their academic pedigrees allows them to indoctrinate scores of nubile minds that pass through their academic clutches. This results in proteges and acolytes who then spread what they have been told once they’re out in the real world. The consequence is today’s paradox wherein the U.S. produces the largest college graduating classes in history, but also as many who are as ignorant as ever about their own circumstances and especially of how we got to where we are today.
When you combine this with that other source of deep intellectual thought, Hollywood, it can become very difficult to discern fantasy from provable reality if you don’t do your own research. The strategy for validating science seems to have evolved away from facts supporting theory towards repeating a theory often enough that it becomes fact. Bleating about man’s influence on global climate changes while dismissing the single most important influence of all on earth’s ecosystems, the Sun, is equally crazy to the correlation between women driving cars and dwindling virginity. Actually the latter may be easier to prove.
Having a university confer an advanced degree upon you is not a guarantee against idiocy, it only exposes your ideas to the light of day. And apparently it’s not a guarantee against women leering lustily at you either. Them’s the breaks I guess.