Introduction
The US today is infected by a cancerous malignancy that has nearly completely destroyed the healthy portions of its host. The difference between a cultural malignancy and a biological one is that the cultural form has an attitude. It rejoices in its destruction. It celebrates the death of the healthy, unlike the biological which is simply a death-creation machine.
Where did this disease start? In the classroom. A century ago, the education establishment was infiltrated by Marxists. Decade after decade, their influence in that establishment grew to the point that today, the majority of teachers in public education are if not advocates of, at least sympathizers for, the message of modern “woke”, anti-virtue, anti-accomplishment principles.
It is this Petrie dish of Marxist, godless worldviews that has produced at least two American generations that detest their country, what it stands for, and the people who uphold it. This is where we are today and why we see teachers (among many others) celebrating (singing, dancing) the death of a man devoted to the founding principles of their nation and its cultural foundation.
Review
I wrote about this phenomenon years ago[i] and so don’t want to recover all the old ground. It’s important to understand where this cultural rot came from that I identify as the “Frankfurt School”, a post-war import to the US educational establishment.
But where it came from is of less interest today than to how to get rid of it. Today it pervades people involved in public education at all levels (where do you think transgender mutilation sympathies grew out of? From a motivation to free the “oppressed”, the same Petrie dish that launched all anti-virtue, anti-moral, anti-ethical sympathies: the academy.) “Education” became a euphemism for indoctrination in these anti-virtue principles.
So, how do we get rid of it?
Eradicating the Cancer
First, we have to remove the nutrients in the Petrie dish – government funding of public education and public universities. How do we do that?
For primary and secondary education, we switch to a school voucher system in which the tax money allocated per pupil in any given school district is refunded via a voucher to the parents of school-age children to apply in whatever school they choose to enroll their child.
Once implemented, that huge “sucking sound” you will hear will be public schools shutting down for lack of funds and their infected teachers being laid off. The fact is that virtually no parents of children in 2025 want their kids indoctrinated in the 5th grade by Marxist teachers. Surely, some do. But those that do can send their children to schools that promote that agenda. And if they have a sufficient “market”, they’ll survive. If not, …
The second strategic step that must be taken is a national blitz of publicized data showing the likelihood of graduates of social-science majors in public universities outliving their student debts. Unbelievably, only a tiny minority of students entering liberal arts majors today actually have any idea of the financial consequences of their decisions. And if they have no clear-eyed understanding of what they’re signing up for, they will, out of perhaps a sense of youthful idealism, continue to do it.
Thirdly, we have to begin (as I believe we already have in 2025) cancelling federal grants to universities that have proven track records of supporting anti-virtue causes, and producing students sympathetic to those causes. The Ivy League schools are the archetypes of this behavior, but the truth is it is endemic in virtually all colleges and universities in the US. (You might want to search on the incidence of camouflaged DEI programs that continue to work in these institutions despite their recent banning.)
Now, some people would additionally advocate placing controls on social media speech. I wouldn’t. Why? Because a) it only treats a symptom, not the disease, and b) shutting off every social media outlet from any type of objectionable messaging is virtually impossible. If you control the big ones, little ones will just pop-up like weeds that enable the same thing. It’s a waste of resources.
Summary
To cure cancer, you have to destroy it — completely. Otherwise, it just grows back. To cure our cultural pathology, you have to attack its biggest source – the education establishment. Charlie Kirk himself had this to say1 about US universities: “I’m going to be honest. These places have to basically be burned to the ground…metaphorically.”
Sure, others abet it, most notably the mainstream media (MSM). But economically and in terms of influence, MSM is already on the decline due to their lack of market success. So, while it is annoying, it is not particularly effective. The other public voices that support it are those being elected by their educationally poisoned constituents. When we stop injecting poison into our young people, we’ll stop electing fools that pander to them.
Really. This is not that hard. It just takes some will and backbone.
[i] The Rise and Fall of America – A Pilgrim’s Search, Rejecting God – A Pilgrim’s Search, The Inversion of Virtue – A Pilgrim’s Search
