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Mar 8, 2023Liked by Eddie Speir

In the 1960’s beginning of New College, a student immediately went forth to earn the Fields Medal, the highest medal in mathematics - worldwide - one earned by such intuitive and gifted leaders as Niels Bohr, who went on to create an Academy in his homeland in Denmark as valid and powerful as Aristotle and Academy were to Greek life; therefore the potential for greatness both beyond and within New College was of unlimited potential. At first - Yes!

Beauty, truth, goodness - the conservative alternative to Wokeness is another Trustee ( Rufo’s) capture of a return to the power of Western Culture as a trailblazing, intellectual, academic standard. In you desire ( EJR and Karen ha) to “ take on” The Trusteeship changes in you own “academic exercise” of writing please see the talks of Rufo who follows closely the strength of philosophical principles of rhetorical debate. It seems you consider Mr Speir not up for the challenge.

Here’s how free thinkers function in Western Literature: try Herman Hesse’s “The Glass Bead Game” but here’s how Wokeness looks at Graduation ceremony from New College: students in drag costume or any type of showmanship costume hoot and holler their way under a circus tent 🎪 down to get a degree where Tarot cards were used as creative writing inspirations and The Church of Satan offers to provide meals during times of trauma because the safe spaces have been invaded by Western Culture advocates suddenly saying that education needs rhetorical devices and not the right to insist the entire language change ( he they etc) so that - at worst like children castrated in Medieval times to maintain soprano voices - youth could presently maim their bodies to make humans into its own Godhood. And undergo surgery to mutilate sexual organs at will?

There is nothing innocent about Wokeness and if you believe it will lead to international awards for brilliance like the early graduates of this very institution achieved - you are blind to the reality here.

The Fruit of the Spirit are attributes of Eddie Speir who will use these gifts for the advancement of New College into its “course change” toward a more humble pursuit of knowledge and wisdom; love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. New College needs this spirit of life-giving grace. It also is in dire need of Rufo’s capacity to place ideas into perfectly formed reasoning such as the best intuitive philosophers use when creating valid systems of change and renewal; it needs the voice of Emory University’s nationally acclaimed author who has captured succinctly the errors of our education system in his seminal book : “Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future” ( Professor Emeritus Mark Bauerlein )

Therefore if you wish to critique the new trustees please consider the goals, the methodologies, and the hope to put an end to the dire slide into Professional Narcissism that has become a standard both at New College and far beyond it. So Eddie Speir, trustee, New College is a carefully chosen compassionate risk taker and trailblazer selected to work with other new trustees of various but different gifts - all to one goal: to return New College to what in the USA once was known as “ mother wit” - the good sense to pursue worthy goals of compassionate, rigorous, honest educational pursuits - the best of academic possibilities like opening the mind first to see clearly and second, to act accordingly. Only then can we be free at last, free to move beyond the most subtle of overpowering prejudices disguised as diverse movements improving the human condition.

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You are not a free thinker, risk taker, or trailblazer. Please do not pervert the New College’s tag line for your own game.

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Agreed, this is beyond pathetic that you couldn’t even come up with your own tag line, and legit stole it from the very institution you purport to break. Karma will find you.

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