Welcome / Professor Judith Adler's Disclosure of Student Shortcomings and The Muse's Dubious Reaction

Hello, and welcome to my new blog, Y’s Perspective.   I’m a young female student attending the campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, and I have an abundance of profound thoughts on many diverse subjects.  I do have a given name, but for the purpose of referencing my online presence, one may call me simply ‘Y’.

I’d imagine my thoughts on Professor Judith Adler’s exposing of Memorial student inadequacies in geography and The Muse’s reaction to said revelation is as good a way as any to get this new blog off the ground:

Bravo for Professor Adler!  I personally congratulate her for having the gumption to point out at least one of the multiple shortcomings of my horrendous embarrassment of a generation.  Anyone who is taking issue with Professor Adler’s findings, or is dismissing such revealed inadequacies as inconsequential and irrelevant, is simply part of the problem.

Such an ignorance of basic geography merely demonstrates and underlines the dire consequences of children growing up under inadequate parenting and third-rate public schooling—not to mention their simultaneous indoctrination with left-wing dogmas and Christian fundamentalism courtesy of the state and the media.  Put simply, the appalling social climate of the past fifteen to twenty years has proven a recipe for disaster.  All I need to do is look around the campus and see the young ‘men’ in their early to mid twenties still looking and dressing like nine-year-old little-leaguers, and I know that there is a serious problem.  With their biker-slut attire and prepubescent manners, sharing a classroom with the young ‘women’ is not unlike being in the company of child-porn ‘stars’. As a young woman of some self-respect and taste, I find my self increasingly preferring the company of genuine men and women in their later thirties and forties.

The truly sad thing is, it seems there is no obvious way back from this dilemma.  It appears the problem is as self-perpetuating as the ignorance and infantile mannerisms it involves.  The functionally illiterate and uncultured among us have been left to their own devices.  The federal Conservative government is certainly not interested in the nation’s youth—unless, of course, it involves pruriently nosing into our sexual lives or attempting to place twelve-year-olds in prison.  Frankly, I see no immediate solution to the problem—short of sterilisation for those who are incapable of adequate home-schooling or cannot afford the luxury of a secular private institution.