Dangerous Ideologies VI: The Amerikan Higher Ed ‘Ponzi Scheme’

Some scams are quite obvious through their open dishonesty. But there are other, more dangerous flim flam operations, which often hide under the covers of opportunity. Some fraud operations have their public exposure from the crime shows on TV.

There exist other swindles that prick at the heart and the mind because we experienced them first hand. So we are survivors now, and we have the responsibility in telling the sleazy tale of deceit. We hold the duty in warning others.

This essay is both a historical piece on one of the most shameful swindles in modern American history, and at the same time, this is a warning for those who might fall victim to the lies of the educated cheats hiding within faculty dungeons and administrator offices – all within the towers and chains of the Amerikan Higher Education incinerator. Let the reader beware.

The university administrators where I had studied, and their very own tenured gang of professors whom I worked for, scammed me horribly. They took away six years of my life for a worthless doctoral degree within the humanities subject of history. Not only did they take advantage of me, but they cursed me forever. They knew full well that I would not find decent work after graduating with a flimsy PhD paper, but they continued their duplicity until the end of my studies.

For a heinous lie, they robbed me of my life’s options, which has all but destroyed my work chances for the rest of my entire life. The only jobs that I can now do represent extremely low-level, low paying work, such as back kitchen, service industry detail, or peon retail, clerical work.

I paid dearly for attending graduate school, but while surviving in that hell mouth of constant work with futile results, I also uncovered a greater crime. It was not just graduate school itself, or the particular university structure that was a corrupt institution. It was the entire Amerikan Higher Ed, College-University System, which was at fault.

I discovered that the Amerikan college complete package was one of the most heinous Ponzi-pyramid schemes. Yet most Americans believe that going to college and getting a degree is a necessary step before entering the work force, almost like a median level between high school and the first real job. This brainwashing trope is similar to many Americans who also believe that the US Military-Industrial-Spy-Complex defends our freedoms and liberties – not the Constitution.

The Amerikan University swindle operates under the bureaucratic-pyramid structure, whether private institutions, for-profit centers, public establishments, or so-called non-profit status centers. All of the above institutions profit off the incoming students and the students’ families.

On the top of the pyramid are lots and lots of administrators, such as trustees, regents, corporate boards of directors, presidents, assistant presidents, provosts, assistant provosts, deans, assistant deans, and multiple other campus directors, such as Director of Affirmative Action, Director of Alcohol Abuse, all of whom run and administer, and most importantly, profit off everyone else that happens to work for them, or pay into the corporation.

These administrators live as the owner class of the institutions. They all make six to seven-figure salaries, receive full rounds of benefits, which often include paid for housing and transportation, and extensive severance packages if forced to vacate their comfortable positions.

The next levels are the selected, top tiered employees, or the commandeering class, who bring in lots of money to the university, such as the football and men basketball coaches, the science, medicine and law, tenured professor stars who receive millions of dollars in US govt. grant money, or the cops that violently protect the administrators’ privileges, such as the campus police force. Like their admin overlords, all of them receive six figure salaries with full, luxurious benefits, and decent severance payments if forced to leave.

The levels further down are all the other tenured, full-time professors and campus spokespersons representing the managerial class. This subset also includes the university librarians, campus food services managers, campus student services managers, campus activities leaders, executive administrative assistants, and the grounds workers, transportation workers, etc., with seniority rights.

There are many of these posts, and they receive good paying salaries with good benefits, but their pay does not often reach to the six figure level, and they must contribute a tax to their campus privileges, such as health care. If they stay for twenty years or longer, without any controversy or incidents, then they can receive a small pension for the rest of their lives, called emeritus, if they worked in the academic fields.

Then the bottom drops out, and literally drops out, for the many peons caught in the college black widow spider web. The peon rabble includes the many part-time, adjunk instructors with advanced degrees who teach a lot of the classes, and who receive no benefits. Their overall net pay is lower than most fast food service workers.

There exist hundreds of graduate student-teaching-research assistants who also teach for extremely low pay. Next, come the campus dining-cleaning workers, most of whom are illegal immigrant workers. A bizarre subset of this rabble comprise the foreign graduate students who work like slaves in the science laboratories, while they pay lots of foreign student tuition money in order to attend those same institutions!

The most abused sub-group represents the thousands of undergraduate students, many of whom also work for the university, and yet, the same university institution taxes without mercy their families for every conceivable, imagined payment. The sordid nickle and dime list of fees includes matriculation, credit classes, non-credit classes, dining, campus services, technology, graduation, transfer, transcripts, applications, counseling, security, building, parking, housing, study abroad, etc.

The next question concerns the history of such institutions: how did they transform themselves into such profiteering, corporate-bureaucratic machines?

Most Amerikan universities and college academics love to ridicule and deride both the for-profit higher learning institutions with their pathetic business and technical degrees and the religious colleges and seminaries that hand out easy doctoral degrees related to religious-theological concerns.

This snobbery is simply the derision of the arrogant buffoons with larded vocabulary looking down on the ignorant poor below. Those pride-ridden boors forget that America’s colleges and universities, the very first ones, such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, started out as religious corporate institutions, training seminarians for the ministry. Is it not ironic that those same old colonial seminaries of Calvinist fanatics, Puritans, (English rite), and Presbyterians, (Scottish-Irish rite), are now the USA’s top private Ivy League institutions?

The cowardly academic bullies, many of them trained in Neo-Marxist gibberish and who write books and articles that very few people ever care to read, also forget how they willingly cringe and submit to their administrator overlords. The old truth still matters: the bully to the weak, is often the coward to the strong.

By the second half of the 1700’s, the Ivy League seminary schools began to diversify their studies; instead of just the old courses on Biblical Hermeneutics and Ecclesiastical History.

Until the mid 1800’s, most of the Ivy League graduates still had ties to the ministry, or to certain elite families within their geographic region. Since those institutions were the first American universities, and have had the greatest reputations, they started a noxious trend where every other university and college in States has followed their examples.

These private Ivy League institutions, run by Corporate Boards of Directors, now have Endowment slush funds in the billions of dollars, which are greater than most of the world nations’ Gross Domestic Products. Unlike most other universities and colleges, their return on investments works for their students. Even in economic depressions, their students find good paying jobs.

The Harvard Corporation insures that their faithful, institutionalized, corporatized students receive good work prospects within surrogate corporate institutions. The surrogate institutions all swim within the Liberal economic maze, while seeping inside the global capitalist labyrinth.

The Ivy League university system is most important for the Amerikan Empire because it ensures a new generation of institutionalized political-economic elites to take the place of the older ones. A few of the scholarships and poor kids who attend such colleges receive new identities as the future class traitors-ambassadors for the Amerikan imperial project.

The Harvard Corporation stole this method from the British aristo-parasites who always allowed a few wealthy families to enter the titled aristocracy. This illusion of hope and dope allows the elites some breathing room – so they don’t have the fear the mass of wage slaves waking up – and eventually putting the elites into early graves.

Harvard especially uses this deceitful method in advertising ad nauseam its token ex-homeless, ex-welfare hotel, ex-poverty-survivor students as champions of the Liberal ideology. In the Amerikan Empire, everyone has a chance of making it. If you don’t have lots of money and wealth – then that is your problem. The Great Lie reiterates: the ticket to the American Dream remains essentially a university-college education.

Due to the Ivy League’s success in transforming their religious seminaries into first class universities, Amerika’s robber baron capitalists also invested in the higher ed scheme during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

Some good examples have included, Leland Stanford in California, Cornelius Vanderbilt in Tennessee. William Marsh Rice in Texas, Washington Duke in North Carolina, Paul Tulane in Louisiana, Johns Hopkins in Maryland, and the capitalist tag team of industrialist and banker, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon in western Pennsylvania, and finally, John D. Rockefeller’s donation, The University of Chicago. All of these schools are not in the Ivy League geographic zone, but they certainly imply Ivy League standards. The elites’ investments were successful.

Amerika’s state universities also joined in the re-marketing revamp. They hid their ties as boarding schools for elites and wealthy families, and soon brought in academic stars, mostly in the hard and applied sciences. Some state universities’ reputations entered the second class tier, such as the University of California Berkeley, The College of New Jersey Rutgers, the University of Virginia, and The University of Texas Austin. The Amerikan university complex had discovered both a gold mine and an oil-gas pocket at the same time.

By the 1970s, the older western land grant, university institutions for agribusiness, and mining-gas industry related studies, modified themselves into massive state institutions with over a hundred different majors. Former state teacher certification colleges, or regional State colleges, also recast themselves as flag-ship university institutions. Even the junior-technical colleges of two-year Associate degrees, converted themselves into regular colleges with multiple majors for transferring credits into the state college system – the community college system.

All of the Amerikan universities-colleges, from the Ivy Leagues to the small junior colleges in the rural west, have utilized the corporate-bureaucratic pyramid model for achieving their profits. They all function as top-heavy structures with the well-paid administrators teaching no classes, while most of the dirty workers, including the regular instruction of students, represent part-timer adjunks receiving salaries lower than fast food wage slaves. How do these corrupt institutions get away with such fraud and continue to gather such extraordinary profits?

The answers fall to the wicked brews of publicity, marketing and advertising. also called college rankings, mixed into the lead boil ideology of the Amerikan Dream-Nightmare – blended with the bitter spices of Neo-Marxist gibberish concerning equal opportunities, harassment free safe spaces and challenges for social justice.

As the college ranking system changes annually, the administrators invest heavily in corporate marketers to advertise their university or college’s success stories. Students and professors willingly give free advertising for the administrators on their universities’ main web pages.

If one visits any higher education campus, the visitor will spot low paid student workers giving tours of the campus to lots of families and prospective students. Most of the families are from the old American working class and middle class, people who worked hard, but were able to save some capital for their kids’ college education.

In our dying Amerikan, imperial economy, the Amerikan university artifice has ultimately transformed itself into another ponzi-pyramid scheme. It robs from the marks that innocently use its same services – the students.

The Amerikan university institution is now up there in the sublime racket stratosphere with private prisons, security firms, check cashing outlets, pawn shop rebates, smart phone monthly payment plans, health and life insurance options, Division of Motor Vehicle rates, sales and payroll taxes, utility fees, civil forfeiture, public comment allotments at City Hall, jail bond bail payments, congressional gerrymandering of voting districts, TV infotainment, work application drug testing-background check fees, TSA airport security theater, police internal affairs, US imperial human rights policies, W-2 employment forms, DUI checkpoints, happy hour bar prices, cover charges, restaurant buffet lunch menus and political elections.

Is it any wonder that the only public institution that some Americans still respect is the US Military, and that the only cultural space left where some Americans actually can feel some flicker of dignity – is at church?

The Harvard Corporation works for its graduating elite students. But what will the other students do with their futile degrees at lesser ranked universities and colleges? They often do not have access to good jobs, and then after graduating, the students owe lots of loaned money to the banks?

The Amerikan Empire has released the furies of outrage and exasperation upon us all. With the Higher Education monopoly exposed, learn a real skill while getting paid – and save your dignity.

 

 

The Amerikan Empire XV: The Apocalypse of the Great Sociopath

The hardest lesson for the historian to learn is that crime does pay, evil does triumph.

The Nazi Regime lost its war of conquest in 1945 – but a more monstrous regime immediately took its place: the Amerikan Empire, or the United States of America, with its headquarters in Washington D.C.

This imperial fiend still murders incessantly according to its heinous will. The Amerikan Empire is now murdering hundreds of thousands of Syrians, tens of thousands of Libyans, and thousands of Yemenis, and very soon it will murder millions of Syrians, Libyans and Yemenis, as it has recently assassinated with impunity in Afghanistan and in Iraq.

A completely illegitimate government, representing the State Mafia of Mexico City, has now murdered over 100,000 of their own citizens. This same criminal network receives most of its ‘anti-narco funds’ from the US government of sociopaths. In Colombia, another Narco-Regime has been murdering its own population unremittingly, and the number of victims is reaching the half a million mark. The Amerikan Empire has spent billions supporting and training the Colombian military-paramilitary death squads in the furtive arts of murder.

This North American Empire continues to fund and support a brutal war in the Ukraine in order for the recent coup plotters to exterminate the Russian population in the eastern part of the country. The ultra-nationalists in Kiev want a Russian-free Ukraine. The US government will support them in this cruel attempt, as it has bankrolled the KLA terrorist thugs that now run the Albanian nationalist state in Kosovo, and the Balkan Fascists that rule the Ustachi regime in Croatia. Those crooked authorities  have eliminated their Serb population problems. The Amerikan Empire is responsible for the mass killing of thousands of Europeans, yet none of the American political elites have had to appear before the so-called ‘War Crimes Tribunal.’

Another political-military system of liquidation has completed its evil tasks in Congo, Africa. 10 million victims have perished in this media blacked out genocide. The first mass extermination system began in the 1880s, when King Leopold of Belgium directed the mass liquidation. The second one has appropriated another 10 million fatalities. This second genocide received its orders from the Amerikan Empire of Sociopaths.

Across every continent, in every region of the world, the Amerikan Empire has continued to support the most venal elites, or whatever horribly corrupt government, which would even sell their family members to the lynching tree of empire. This imperial fortress of propaganda and lies has fomented total war, mass extermination campaigns, and the bad death for billions of Earth’s inhabitants.

Inside this monster overlord, institutional violence with the eternal war against the poor increases daily in intensity.  Driving a vehicle on the major interstates has become a form of mental torture. I am not just speaking of the bad drivers.

The prisons are everywhere, and so is prison construction. The fear of getting pulled over by the police forces is real. The police inside of the Empire have full powers and legal freedoms to murder, torture, imprison and rob the basic property of most Americans, often personal cash money or one’s own vehicle. Americans have incredibly difficult legal recourses in fighting such tyranny.

Throughout the United States, in small towns and in small cities, most shops stay closed and shut. The storefronts often display weird crap in the windows. Most of the open store fronts are antique shops that sell the leftover, hoarded junk from American basements and attics.

Available, decent-paying jobs are often in police, security guard, prison work. There also exist work offers in the hospital social service sectors, a few cafe or bar jobs, or if someone has family friends contacts, a cushy government, civil service job where most of the workers produce almost nothing.

The job seeker often has to travel to certain sections of the country for the productive, good paying positions, such as oil and gas work, electrical design, welding, engineering, carpentry construction, and mechanical repairs. Few Americans have the skills and experience for those good paying occupations. Many Americans who have arrest records, not even convictions or prison time, cannot access most employment opportunities.

In medium-sized cities, and which often have a large university and state worker population base, or as we call them in the States, college towns, there are lots of trendy, hipster, cool looking stores with expensive housing, such as ‘artist lofts and studio condos.’ These cities are paradises for the few lucky ones that actually hold good-paying jobs, such as university administrators, tenured professor cowards and high level government workers.

But there are also thousands upon thousands of homeless drifters, tent populations, and the poor that have no work, nor can they get any good work in the future. The local municipal and state governments offer them nothing – except the ugly gaze of the police officer, the local jail, expensive fines, parking enforcers, with the nasty glare of the local citizens who fear ending their lives under such dire conditions. Blood donor banks have lines outside their doors representing the throw away population base. Public libraries, under already scant resources, are now the only public spaces where they can sit and rest without police harassment.

Most of the trendy hipster bars, cafes, movie theaters, restaurants and clubs, charge rip off prices for the basic foodstuffs. Ordering a few rounds of drinks now costs up to 50$, and this includes the taxes and required 20% tips.

Housing costs have quadrupled to the rates of annual inflation. Young people often have to live in ‘communal housing,’ meaning eight people sharing for a four person reserved apartment. If it is a house, a really poor person can find a windowless, dank basement rent space for around 150$. With most of the service industry jobs still paying the bare minimum wage, this sub-standard housing rent has continued to rise.

The political leaders, implying the mayors and city councils, (City Halls), who run these college cities are some of the most hypocritical and vicious criminals in the political field. They regularly use the police against all the ‘dangerous classes,’ especially against African-Americans. Only the gentrification clean ups matter.

These government hacks especially hate armed citizens, yet they have their own police protection and bodyguards. The dishonorable juntas often consider themselves the arbiters of good taste, the arts and culture – as long as the patrons have money to spend in ‘their cities’ of course.

And the many megalopolis locations across the US? They all contain the plagues of American small towns and cities, but their afflictions are a thousand times more serious.

Barbarity and Cruelty flow uninterrupted in those urban infernos. The rule of law means nothing. Only the power of the urban police forces remains supreme. The utterly corrupt politicians and their lackey friends regularly abuse the millions of looted taxation monies.

Landlords transform into bloodsucking, economic vampires and resort to property pimping against their renters. Woe unto the young poor and the poor non-white populations inside of those cauldrons of economic damnation. Their only routes are the military, the prison, drug addiction, suffocating wage-slave labor, or madness. Meanwhile, the imperial masters keep the sinister arts of divide and conquer in place.

No matter what our Leftist enemies, Socialist-Communist whiners, and the other dishonest complainers say, the Amerikan Empire is not in decline. It has yet to perfect its ultimate reign of terror and supremacy of power.  The United States Empire has still not reached the pinnacle of its absolute domination and degeneracy.

We historians also know that all state empires fall, rip apart and come to their ends. This Empire will also fall. We must give it time. And when it does finally fall, it will react with a ferocity of violence that we cannot imagine. This imperial juggernaut will respond through wraths of savagery and unhinged state terrorism.

This particular empire will first implode from within, and the sociopaths that run such a beast, also know this truth. These are the reasons government agencies have stockpiled enormous quantities of military weaponry, and have consolidated unprecedented levels of electronic data collection with rough policing controls. They have also instituted various forms of vigilance in order to cow the domestic population.

A partial list has included interior checkpoints, mass imprisonment, TSA airport harassment and the gradual plots for enabling gun confiscations. Again, this Empire is still in its upper growth stages, and the sociopaths have no scruples in throwing the most horrid of weapons against its home population. Only one empire has used nuclear weapons against civilian populations – and the winner still goes to the United States.

We definitely cannot fight the cabals of evildoers in Washington D.C., nor can we even think of entering their political contests. We don’t have enough money nor any elite connections. This does not mean however that we are helpless victims to their political plotting and violent schemes.

We only have two choices. We could simply forsake our honor and dignity, and willingly submit as slaves.

The other choice is more difficult. This mode of operation rejects any and all collaboration with the current regime, regardless of political party.

We have to first stand guard against any phony moves by the elites to reform such an excrescence when the proles begin to act restless. This Empire can never reform itself no matter what ‘progressive’ or ‘honest’ politician it puts forth, and no matter what the Leftist, activist, progressive mobs proclaim about their new heroes.

The American political elites have their Liberal, no-sell out, reformers ready for public display once the political order breaks down. We Anarchists would never join in the media praise of the fakes, and we will continue to expose all such political candidates as frauds.

We need to sanitize ourselves from their multiple, sophisticated propaganda outlets. The current examples in our contemporary lives include corporate TV media, Hollywood movie previews, Clear Channel-FCC approved-radio commentaries, print newspapers and magazines, street and road billboards, public transit advertising, threatening public messages, and large warning signs.

Anarchists always disregard their staged cultural events. Ignore, ignore – ignore them all. Let their ugly messages invade our minds, and then, just let them leave. This intellectual discipline is very hard to do, but it is not impossible.

The final method is non-participation in the system. No oaths of service, no collaboration, no spying, informing or snitching for our so-called ‘authorities.’ They deserve no respect, nor do they hold any legitimacy to govern us – only punishment for their legal crimes. This punishment will never arrive so long as they maintain their power inside our minds.

Our future has never looked so horrifying. But we had no choice in the time and date of our births. It is never good to look for political struggle. Peace is the better option. But with such a depravity of evil that reigns supreme on this Earth, our honor demands that we stand and fight.

So let us stand strong, bear our burdens with courage, defend human dignity, and always center our minds on the code of honor. The universal code of honor comprises complete honesty, gentleness, friendly and open attitudes, humility, active listening rather than talking, politeness, frugality with possessions, complete generosity to all, and deep sensitivity with compassion to others.

We abstain from taking objects not given to us, aggressive behavior, the abusing of intoxicants, and sleeping around between friends. This code of honor is not easy to practice, but it will shield us from the final apocalypse, the most vile Amerikan Holocaust. Their plans for our extermination are only in the waiting stages.

And never forget: it is often the most reactionary and powerful regimes that experience the first revolutionary cataclysms. No European in the late 1700s could have imagined the Ancient French Empire losing its sacred symbol of absolute monarchy. No European in the early 1900s could have forestalled the Russian Empire rotting away, transformed into the first workers state.

Where honor is most held sacred, and in American culture it is still reigns strong in the South and the Western regions, the first lines of demarcation shall emerge.