Via Kottke via are directed towards a timely and rather transcendent think-piece that we missed when it was originally published back in December from McSweeney’s contributor Andrew Patrick Clark in this message from the chancellor on the recent student protests to the university community.
“…We will not look back and regret this decision. Although we were wrong about not admitting women, abolishing racial quotas, US involvement in Vietnam, and divesting from apartheid South Africa, we are confident that this time is different.
Rules are rules, and the rules never change…
This recent protest is different. These students will never inspire change. Fifty years from now, we will definitely not pretend that we agreed with them the whole time.”
The brief missive is one to be read in full, particularly in light of recent events but speaks to the legacy and spirit revolution in general.
synchronoptic
one year ago: Wes Anderson deja vu, the Cosmati Pavement plus the founding of Audi
two years ago: a classic from Steely Dan, the feast of St Mark plus Ukrainian commemorative postage
three years ago: your daily demon: Barbatos, taxation in Rome, a Roman holiday, more guerilla gardening, the first map of the New World plus St Maughold
four years ago: more COVID conspiracies, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope (1990), Elbe Day plus another phantom island
five years ago: CAPTCHA technology, the invention of the bicycle plus rebuilding Notre Dame
