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Journalist Ron Fournier spoke at an Institute of Politics (IOP) dinner last night, stressing that the “change?? sweeping through America runs deeper than the current presidential campaigns...
...sporting Harvard undergraduates form up into a bourgeois proletariat, for whom angry emails have replaced manifestos. They are defiantly, eternally dissatisfied—it doesn’t matter why—and many spend their hours insisting upon an urgent need for some type of “change??; though, again, they never take the unattractive step of defining what that change means. It’s like a Barack Obama speech without the eloquence—but with all the mind-numbing, fanfare and self-importance...
...Change?? takes time; it requires patience, which our generation has little these days. For we live in an ever-globalizing world, where communication is instantaneous, where technology continues to erode the limitations of man’s natural capacities, and where politics is now everyone’s favorite reality show...
...Certainly it is understandable, if not forgivable, that college students seem particularly attracted to the promise of a better future, to “change?? in general, to the unlimited capacity for man’s moral perfection. They read about such fancies in their social theory classes; political “science” teaches how to practice them. Administrators constantly advise their charges, in vapid aphorisms, to challenge authority, to question assumptions, to follow their dreams...
...wake of Iowa and New Hampshire, I too had chalked up my ambivalence about the two candidates to my own race and gender. I simply had to grit my teeth and decide which one was more important to me, which was in more dire need of “change??: my status as a minority or my status as a woman. As the campaign wore on, however, I came to realize that I don’t swing towards Hilary Clinton when I am feeling particularly feminine (or feminist, for that matter), and I don?...