what they think it does.
My students are generally pleasant, but they’re never any fun.
Where’s the joy in their lives? They live to denounce. It’s like having
25 Robespierres around you three times a week. They’re always on the
lookout for something to be outraged about. I’m never surprised when I
hear that rates of sexual activity have decreased. It’s hard to imagine
them letting their guard down for one second to cherish the company of
someone else. What on earth will the romantic comedy films of the future
be like? Zooming in on phone screens as two people exchange sexual
consent notices on an app?
In the coming weeks I have to make a decision about whether to keep
teaching in this elite program, and I doubt I’ll return. The non-elite
kids at least have a sense of humor, a sense of joy. I’m not sure at
what point we made elite education negative and puritanical, but take it
from this professor: it sure isn’t any fun.
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’When you make love you’re using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy
and don’t give a damn for anything. They can’t bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you’re happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?’ -- From George Orwell's 1984
It's quite clear that the Left really has taken that book as an instruction manual.
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