So i am going back to college again.
And what i am learning is that college isn't a place you can think, experiment, or explore anymore....at least in the whole debate sense. Of course they want students to explore homosexuality, and get all the abortions the democratic party can eat. But yeah, if you say that as a matter of faith those are sins and people will go to hell for them...well that's probably forbidden and you'll be punished.
it is a place where you cannot say, think, or do, well anything regarding ideas. It is completely paralyzing. By equity, I am starting to think they want people equally stupid and molded. Or equally shabby as Ayn Rand put it.
Also these students are not being exposed to Rand's philosophy of, it is not a matter of who will let me, it is a matter of who will stop me. All they really know is being stopped, and getting a better grade the better they are at proverbially drawing between the lines. Ever seen those abstract line construction puzzles where you really have to draw outside of the box to solve a problem [or heck even using non-euclidean geometries]? Today's college student's can't exactly do that, proverbially speaking.
You may hear the claim of a grown elephant on a chain on a peg in the ground. The elephant could free itself, but at an early age it learned that it can't so it doesn't even try any more. That is what college is doing to people these days.
Even the simplest solutions are effectively forbidden due to this cognitive paralysis, and the values of the university are the first that come to mind when problem solving. As one university president put it, putting DIE in the classroom gives students critical thinking skills. [back to me] So their critical thinking skills effectively limited to these DIE indoctrination centers. Hence, it likely explains why Budweiser turned to Dylan Mulvaney to try to expand their customer base. I am pretty sure the trans community really doesn't care whether a beer company panders to a single "celebrity" member of their community or not. Most have their own metrics of choosing their beers which is no different than all people who drink beer. Even if there were a small subset that did care, the company should have tried to pick a more niche product. Budweiser's marketing effectively re-branded itself as tranny fluid, and the customer based abandoned them. I looked at the location of a local Budweiser distribution the other day, and there is no sign left and not vehicles on their lot. I am sure the employees were hard working and did their job well, but what cost them their job was an executive level marketing expert.
I think i heard Tim Pool, say that he would rather hire a person selling bootleg dvds on the streets than a person with a marketing degree. I thought that was kind of silly.Ironically, that is my present field of study [well not yet] and now I am thinking he's right.
Given how the university has treated me, a customer, so far I am having second thoughts about starting my degree next term. If their ridiculous speech codes get in the way of customer service to the point it destroys all value in earning the degree, then how can they really offer courses in marketing. Seriously, why am I paying money into a marketing program from a university that actively is failing marketing in practice.
In the end, companies today just care about the paper, but I think that as time continues more companies will agree with Tim Pool. That guy selling bootleg dvds may be breaking the laws to get the job done, but the reality is: he is making customers; he is giving them value; he is getting to know his customers and what they want; he's learned no limitations on what he can do; and he is learning how to get things done. he's not carrying a whole blockbuster video's worth of inventory; he's peddling what he knows will sell. All while the college educated are being boxed in and restrained like that elephant.
If I wanted to own a legitimate copy of song of the south, Disney would say "Hell no"-meanwhile they are pushing woke programs and shows that no one is watching and destroying once valuable IP in the process and taking heavy losses. That bootleg dvd guys sounds kind of smart. Disney in hoping to Expand their customer base came at the expense of their Disney magic; the quality of story telling was lost, the lore was lost, parents no longer trust Disney around their kids, and they are killing off, replacing, or rendering impotent fan favorite heroes. Like Disney pretends it didn't learn from Habro's the 1986 transformer's movie, where hasbro killed off Optimus prime upsetting everyone. It had a ripple effect back then as other movie scripts (g.i. joe at least) were quickly changed. Disney's once loyal customers lost interest and movie franchises are effectively dead to them. If you are upset that Disney replaced your favorite hero (like hasbro did with Optimus), Disney will call you a racist to their defense.
Meanwhile, Super Saiyan God blue Goku was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade. That was awesome to see him that relevant in America. There is a big difference between delivering value where people want to see more, and pandering crap to minority groups. Victoria secret recently learned that lesson, although it might not be the case that plus size women are a minority. Their sales are down, because their customers, who traditionally focused on the ideal of beauty which manifested through their supermodels, didn't want to identify as fat undesirable slob replacements. I am not exactly into womenswear, so I don't know if there is any difference in material between brand A and brand B. But what VS was selling was an ideal of beauty, and they threw it all away to try to be more inclusive. If they wanted to appeal to the plus size market, they should have created a new line to perhaps sell at major retailers and their online stores. But odds are, assuming vs already sold plus size things, plus size women were probably already buying VS because it made them feel better about themselves-until the marketing changed.
Again, modern marketing executives are so boxed into this whole diversity, inclusion, and equity nonsense, that their proposed solutions to increasing sales will most likely result in destroying their own branding. They don't even know who their own customers are and what they want, nor do they even care to listen to them. They'll toss away 10 million loyal customers in the hand, to get 2 they think might be in a bush-which were probably already in the hand to begin with. Tim is right, and it is because our universities are crippling students and not just in the pocketbook.
There is little to no value left to college; Title ix and the woke agenda I think have killed it. it's going to cripple more companies and more brands in the future.