Western Universities Have Sold Their Souls

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On October 18, ’23 we published a piece titled The Treason Of The Educated Class in which we explored Professor Thomas Harrington’s charge, in his collection of essays, The Treason Of The Experts; Covid and the Credentialed Class¹, that

so many elites in the political, economic, cultural and academic world […] participated in the “great reset” and, further, that so many who did not participate remained silent even as essential social, market, and cultural functioning was systematically dismantled by force with the full participation of the commanding heights of society (The Treason Of The Experts, viii).

As well as the betrayal by the educated class (or should we say schooled rather than educated) during the pseudo-pandemic, Harrington points out the betrayal and moral abdication of the intellectual class in 1927 in the wake of WW1, as described by Julien Benda in The Treason Of The Intellectuals². He says that,

For Benda, the great and unpardonable sin of the intellectuals in both Germany and France was to abandon the imperative to generate disinterested knowledge, and to instead lend their talents and prestige to tasks of promoting home-borne chauvinism on one hand, and the systematic denigration of the enemy’s culture and citizens on the other. (The Treason of the Experts, 107).

Professor Bill Willers’ focus is on the universities. In an article in globalresearch.ca titled, Western Universities Sold Their Souls During an Engineered Covid Pandemic he tells us,

All over the West, the Academy, supposedly the bastion of free inquiry, has shown itself to be as craven and corruptible as any sector of political rot. Much of it has sold its soul in the interest of protecting the “flood” of an officially designated narrative that is increasingly seen as driven by corporate profiteering.

Can we ever trust educational institutions again? Could we ever trust them? Were they always molding instruments to shape humans to suit the needs and assuage the fears of the powerful? Is this why so many have been compliant through the pseudo-pandemic? If we value human freedom and creative minds capable of critical thought, and wish to ensure that our young grow up with these values intact, we are challenged to take personal responsibility for our children’s education and reject, or very carefully cherry pick, that provided by state institutions. On the evidence of the three writers referenced, the intellectuals, credentialed class or educated class have shown themselves to be utterly untrustworthy and worse, morally reprehensible. [T]he Academy, supposedly the bastion of free inquiry, has shown itself to be as craven and corruptible as any sector of political rot. We have been betrayed; our trust in the institutions of higher education is gone and, in the opinion of this writer, is not retrievable.

Professor Willers’ article follows:

Western Universities Sold Their Souls During an Engineered Covid Pandemic

Think back to October of 2019 when there was a “simulation” of a global corona pandemic that was a ‘chapter and verse’ prediction of the real Covid-19 Pandemic declared only 20 weeks later. It was called Event 201, and it resulted in an agreement among the representatives who had come from all sectors society: Craft a narrative for the governmental / industrial / media complex to hammer society with, stick to it and ignore or attack any assessment not in line with the agreed-upon story line.

That’s what happened, and it continues to this day. A pall of censorship descended on the planet, and “higher education” of the Western world has protected the iron-clad official narrative every step of the way with all of its vaunted reputation. But you might have seen that coming. After all, Event 201 was a “tabletop exercise” run not only by the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation but also by the respected Johns Hopkins University.

That there are universities in the US being paid to manufacture strategies to counteract information and perspectives out of step with official governmental accounts is naked fact. Departments within major universities are serving as censors in the interest of governmental power, and they brag about it. And isn’t it of more than passing interest that the positions most rigidly protected are official stories on the 2020 election and of Covid-19, the latter in particular?

It’s the same way in Canada. Glaring falsehoods within governmental claims regarding Covid-19 quickly generated reactions from within the medical community itself, one of the most compelling being from America’s Frontline Doctors. But the group was attacked by esteemed McGill University through its Office of Science and Society. Simply look at what McGill labelled as misinformation in 2021 in light of what has been revealed since then.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, universities in England, Finland, Germany, France, and Portugal (a Canadian university also is found in this group) joined to form Jitsuvax, a collective dedicated to ferreting out any form of “misinformation” that might lead people to be “less likely to accept vaccination”, and finding ways of combatting such unwanted information. In each of those countries, the universities involved are major representatives of the nation’s Academy. Consider that England’s Cambridge University, a Jitsuvax member, was the alma mater of both Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin in order to get a better understanding of how far the Western university has declined as an environment fostering wide open thinking and exchange, and has instead become a tool of official power.

Jitsuvax refers one to a list of 19 “Myths about Covid-19 vaccination”, a ridiculous blend of lies (eg,“FACT: The Covid-19 vaccine do not have side effects that appear only after a long time”) buried among self-evident truths (eg, “FACT: Sadly, old, frail, and vulnerable people sometimes die”). Future side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine are something no human could ever predict, but that particular lie may be in play right now, because there is an expectation from multiple medical voices of damaging impacts manifesting only years after receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. In fact, the very reason that it has traditionally taken many years before vaccines of any sort are considered safe enough for wide distribution is that postponed repercussions are always possibilities. Even Anthony Fauci explained that at one time.

There are key takeaways from watching Event 201’s so-called “top global leaders and decision makers” from finance, education, public relations, the military, TV networks, banking and finance, commerce, the UN and health/medicine (including China’s CDC). The gathering acknowledged the growing public distrust in the public health profession. At the same time (and don’t forget that this “exercise” was months before the Covid-19 Pandemic was declared) they knew that what they would consider to be misinformation was certain to be showing up on the internet, that it would be impossible to stop it altogether, and that the best way to counter it would be to “flood” the information environment with an enforced, agreed-on official narrative.

Regarding misinformation, all discussion in Event 201 assumed it would all be coming from “bad actors” with malicious intentions. The notion that revelation of deception, or opinions hostile to the official account, could come from legitimate medical and scientific sources was not entertained. And of course, sound medical and scientific information not conforming to the agreed-on official narrative would inevitably be labeled as misinformation. In sum, then, all those self-appointed global experts were unable or unwilling to face the fact that society’s growing distrust of certified “public health” (a distrust vastly more pervasive now than in those pre-Pandemic days) is based not, primarily, on misinformation from “bad actors” but on the spectacle of competent medical and scientific sources being unjustifiably trashed as purveyors of misinformation.

In the real world, this “flooding” of official public health data and advice these past nearly four years, along with concerted blocking of valid scientific information, has led to dissenting doctors and other medical personnel being harassed by medical boards, penalized and delicensed. Central to the official presentation was that there were no effective and available treatments for Covid-19, so that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, both inexpensive and having been shown effective in treating Covid-19, were made illegal or unavailable so as to justify the “emergency use authorization” of an expensive “vaccine” based on a technology, untested in humans, being rushed into production.

All over the West, the Academy, supposedly the bastion of free inquiry, has shown itself to be as craven and corruptible as any sector of political rot. Much of it has sold its soul in the interest of protecting the “flood” of an officially designated narrative that is increasingly seen as driven by corporate profiteering. But the monetary issue itself, in the long run, may come to be seen as of declining significance, relatively. This is because the authorized narrative, so carefully protected, appears to be an important part of a secretive and nefarious global project the ultimate goal of which is only now beginning to be sufficiently explored.