“There are few ways,” Dr. Johnson said to a friend, “in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
This a great truth, and one might
wish that The Wharton School had taken Dr. Johnson’s observation to
heart. After all, this storied outpost of the University of
Pennsylvania, is, or was, one of the nation’s premier business schools.
As such it is, or rather it was, dedicated to instructing its students
in the practical application of Dr. Johnson’s truism. To what end should
management at a publicly traded company aim? Increasing shareholder
value: period, full stop. ...............
Variations on such themes are as plentiful as they are preposterous. The list of agents for utopia is long and varied. It includes artists and intellectuals, entertainers, political activists, blatant poseurs, professional gurus, and many, many academics. In their different ways, these people pander to a generation’s vanity, ambition, cowardice, and lust for sensation; increasingly they pander to a generation whose vanity is its lust for sensation. They also serve, as Susan Sontag illustrated in her campy meditations on Camp, as a defense against the alarming assaults of ennui. Many promulgated—like Rousseau before them—that insatiable greed for the emotion of virtue which makes the actual practice of virtue seem superfluous and elevates self-infatuation into a prime spiritual imperative. That is precisely what is happening at places like The Wharton School (and they are legion) which, by placing the imperatives of wokeness at the center of their curriculum, betray their students by downgrading actual education to an afterthought. ...........To Read More....
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