In one media statement, the
it-that-stinks who is the vice-chancellor of Sydney University
illustrates why the privileged detested, fought against, and have
piece-by-piece worked to dismantle that momentary mirage that was
universal education in Australia.
If education is universal, then all the
its-that-stink, all of the fellow-travellors of Doctor Michael
Spence, a child of privilege of the first water, lose their power of
life-or-death over the education of the poor.
Look at his Wikipedia entry and reflect that it doesn't note that Spence got his
BA under the regime he is now working to fire-bomb.
There
is the background of someone who wants to strip the universal right
of the poor to attend university without crippling debt.
And
his idea for replacing universal education? Scholarships, the money
disbursed by government, managed by the university, and bestowed on
those the its-that-stink consider “worthy”. In other words the
children of privilege regain their God-bestowed right to educate the
poor via scholarships rather than having it as their right.
In
other words, right up to the Vice-Chancellor's suite – and you can
bet the it-that-stinks doesn't live low – what Sydney University
resents and has nurtured a resentment of ever since Whitlam, is that
it can't lock its gates to the Westies. Let someone talk the talk of
Penriff, if they have the academic record to walk past the Sandstone,
SU had to say “yes”, and SU detests the very idea.
It
detests it so much that a Vice-Chancellor who paid not one
dollar to his own university
education – look up the dates – wants to recover the upper-class
right to dole out a piss-worth of scholarships just so long as it can
turn itself into a poor-man's MIT, elevate its executive salaries,
and for fuck's sake
exclude rough accents of public schools within 5km of the CBD.
I'm
sick of it: I'm sick to death of the rise of privilege being
normalised by the minions of Murdoch. I'm sick of the lame, useless
and failed economic theories of American Republicans being treated as
holy fucking writ by
Australian journalists who are nothing but cannon-fodder. And I'm
sick of privileged dead shits having their opinions treated as
anything but the outwelling of this giant, petulant tantrums of
pricks who think their right to rule overrules anything the mere
lifters of the country might want or aspire to.
Dr
Spence's particular academic specialty, by the way, is defending the
kind of intellectual property rights that are about to make medicines
unaffordable. He's also an Anglical preacher. Go and work out how
those two things make an ethical whole, and then find out: “will it
blend?”
