Idiots On All Sides

I have yet to see the film 3 Idiots, which is, I believe, a spoof on our Chacha State-sponsored and -directed higher education system, but Jug Suraiya's blog post on the subject makes for compelling reading. I particularly liked these points:

...though a number of higher educational institutions with dubious international credentials have been allowed to set up shop in India, highly reputable academic establishments, such as Harvard, are facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles in making an entry into the country.

His conclusion is also stark:

When are we going to see the idiocy of our higher education? And having seen it, when are we going to do something about it? What do you think? Are we doomed to be a nation of not 3 Idiots but a billion idiots now?

Read the full post here, and circulate far and wide. It is your mind you have to protect - and nurture. The Chacha State only seeks to destroy it. So don't be an idiot.

Talking of idiots, I also found a Lew Rockwell post extremely funny, though in a macabre, black humour kind of way. The post is titled "The Spectrum," speaking of the political spectrum. It also tells us something about the idiots around us:

Democrats: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare
Republicans: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare
Liberals: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare
Conservatives: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare
Fascists: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare
Socialists: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare
Communists: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare
Nazis: Political Party favoring welfare and warfare

Thanks God for the libertarians.

We believe in being pro-market, anti-state and anti-war.

I hope someday you will join us,
And the world will be a new one.