Ralston college, headquartered in Savannah,Georgia, was just recently established, with the goal of providing the rigorous, classical education which has all but disappeared from today’s Universities.
Below is an interesting diagnosis of the disintegration of Cambridge University, so bad that it prompted David Butterfield, one of their Classics professors to resign (said colleagues, friends, and family “nobody does that”) and join the Ralston faculty. *
According to his dissection and diagnosis, things are bad, perhaps fatally bad at Cambridge.*
I’ve always thought him pretty funny, and he can certainly deliver a line well. After the video finished my YouTube naturally recommended a video for me. For some reason I watched and thought it was pretty good. Since it’s an open thread, I thought I’d post it.
I like today’s Hugh Grant much better than the suave, vulnerable, romcom heartthrob he started as. He’s now a craggy, sly old fox, using his insider Brit / Oxford background to full advantage.
Check out his recent films with Guy Ritche: “The Man from UNCLE,” “The Gentlemen,” and “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.”
Not great cinema, but stacked casts and cracking good fun.
According to his dissection and diagnosis, things are bad, perhaps fatally bad at Cambridge.*
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Decline is a choice. The article tells us what is happening, but not the names of those responsible for the decisions he laments. Article is of limited utility.
started as an ecclesiastical institutions like many of the ivies, now it’s more like hogwarts
his latest role in Heretic, is genuinely creepy
an interesting side note about Operation Fortune, it was slated to premier in the spring of 2022, one of Jason Statham’s entertaining although forgetable action adventures, Hugh Grant plays a character somewhat like fellow Cantabridgian
Hugh Laurie played in the Night Manager, perhaps not a villain but a middleman for sundry interests, but after February of that year, they decided to postpone the premier, the villains were entirely the wrong sort,
I see its roots in Apple’s iconic 1984 Macintosh Superbowl ad and Steve Jobs’ “Think different” catchphrases — copied in Jaguar’s verb-adjective versions such as “Create exuberant.” However, these are mated to Total Woke and Zoolander tone-deafness.
A bunch of futuristically dressed diverse “edgy” types” are strutting about, apparently, on the surface of Mars. No prestige automobiles or precision engineering in sight. What do they think they are selling and to whom? Where is that sleek beautiful Jaguar icon?
The new logo is clever in that it is in today’s fashionably bland lowercase except the “GU.” Which I guess is a callback to the British three-syllable pronunciation — “ja-GYU-ar.”
The ad, needless to say, has been savaged on the internet.
The Jaguar people coyly hint this is an opening salvo of some sort which will become clear later. Some commentators agree that it is a prank of some sort.
However, according to the Jaguar Marketing Director:
_______________________________
We’re on a transformative journey of our own. Driven by a belief in diversity, inclusion, creativity, policy and, most importantly, action. We’ve established over 15 DEI groups such as Pride, which are here tonight, and Women in Engineering and Neurodiversity Matters…
At Jaguar we proudly stand with the LGBTQ+ community because we know that originality and creativity thrives in spaces where people are free to be themselves.
Jaguar Marketing has been assimilated by the Woke Borg.
they had 15 dei groups!, i’m reminded of when homer designed a car for his brother played by danny devito
it was robert mccall’s car in the equalizer, and wasn’t it bonds at one point, its like defacing a cultural monument
As just one indicator of how bad things have gotten at Cambridge, the article Butterfield wrote for the “Spectator” had a graph demonstrating how, during the last 15 years, there has been a five fold increase in the number of students who claim to have some sort of disability, with the greatest increase being in mental or learning disorders (6,000 “disabled” students, roughly one in every four students) which apparently entitles these “disabled” students to various remedial actions which, I’d imagine, results in their having a less rigorous curriculum.*
I think I was the first person she encountered as she came in the front way. I had gone around some road closed signs and had come in the back way through the wreckage so I sent her over there. The area with above ground power is not technically in Mirrormont as MM proper has buried utilities.
Wow. Even The Guardian is savaging the Jaguar ad:
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–Marina Hyde, “Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars”
The article notes that a big rebranding campaign takes months to prepare, costing however many millions. Who knew Trump would be reelected and the world was swinging anti-Woke?
Wonderful timing.
It’s like the hippie production of “Hair” debuted just after Reagan won in 1980.
The Jaguar ad campaign is the sort of thing that happens to organizations living in left-wing bubbles.
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Ralston college, headquartered in Savannah,Georgia, was just recently established, with the goal of providing the rigorous, classical education which has all but disappeared from today’s Universities.
Below is an interesting diagnosis of the disintegration of Cambridge University, so bad that it prompted David Butterfield, one of their Classics professors to resign (said colleagues, friends, and family “nobody does that”) and join the Ralston faculty. *
According to his dissection and diagnosis, things are bad, perhaps fatally bad at Cambridge.*
* See https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/decline-and-fall-how-university-education-became-infantilised/
I’ve always thought him pretty funny, and he can certainly deliver a line well. After the video finished my YouTube naturally recommended a video for me. For some reason I watched and thought it was pretty good. Since it’s an open thread, I thought I’d post it.
Roger Scruton: Why Intellectuals are Mostly Left
https://youtu.be/FYo4KMhUx9c?si=bPcUtqT8PVZx9Xn4
I like today’s Hugh Grant much better than the suave, vulnerable, romcom heartthrob he started as. He’s now a craggy, sly old fox, using his insider Brit / Oxford background to full advantage.
Check out his recent films with Guy Ritche: “The Man from UNCLE,” “The Gentlemen,” and “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.”
Not great cinema, but stacked casts and cracking good fun.
According to his dissection and diagnosis, things are bad, perhaps fatally bad at Cambridge.*
==
Decline is a choice. The article tells us what is happening, but not the names of those responsible for the decisions he laments. Article is of limited utility.
started as an ecclesiastical institutions like many of the ivies, now it’s more like hogwarts
his latest role in Heretic, is genuinely creepy
an interesting side note about Operation Fortune, it was slated to premier in the spring of 2022, one of Jason Statham’s entertaining although forgetable action adventures, Hugh Grant plays a character somewhat like fellow Cantabridgian
Hugh Laurie played in the Night Manager, perhaps not a villain but a middleman for sundry interests, but after February of that year, they decided to postpone the premier, the villains were entirely the wrong sort,
Re: Jaguar commercial
… must be seen to be believed.
–“Jaguar | Copy Nothing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLtFIrqhfng
I see its roots in Apple’s iconic 1984 Macintosh Superbowl ad and Steve Jobs’ “Think different” catchphrases — copied in Jaguar’s verb-adjective versions such as “Create exuberant.” However, these are mated to Total Woke and Zoolander tone-deafness.
A bunch of futuristically dressed diverse “edgy” types” are strutting about, apparently, on the surface of Mars. No prestige automobiles or precision engineering in sight. What do they think they are selling and to whom? Where is that sleek beautiful Jaguar icon?
The new logo is clever in that it is in today’s fashionably bland lowercase except the “GU.” Which I guess is a callback to the British three-syllable pronunciation — “ja-GYU-ar.”
The ad, needless to say, has been savaged on the internet.
The Jaguar people coyly hint this is an opening salvo of some sort which will become clear later. Some commentators agree that it is a prank of some sort.
However, according to the Jaguar Marketing Director:
_______________________________
We’re on a transformative journey of our own. Driven by a belief in diversity, inclusion, creativity, policy and, most importantly, action. We’ve established over 15 DEI groups such as Pride, which are here tonight, and Women in Engineering and Neurodiversity Matters…
At Jaguar we proudly stand with the LGBTQ+ community because we know that originality and creativity thrives in spaces where people are free to be themselves.
–Santino Pietrosanti, UK Brand Director at Jaguar Land Rover
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/jaguar-marketing-directors-comments-celebrating-commitment-dei-resurface-after-woke-rebrand
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Jaguar Marketing has been assimilated by the Woke Borg.
they had 15 dei groups!, i’m reminded of when homer designed a car for his brother played by danny devito
it was robert mccall’s car in the equalizer, and wasn’t it bonds at one point, its like defacing a cultural monument
As just one indicator of how bad things have gotten at Cambridge, the article Butterfield wrote for the “Spectator” had a graph demonstrating how, during the last 15 years, there has been a five fold increase in the number of students who claim to have some sort of disability, with the greatest increase being in mental or learning disorders (6,000 “disabled” students, roughly one in every four students) which apparently entitles these “disabled” students to various remedial actions which, I’d imagine, results in their having a less rigorous curriculum.*
* See https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/decline-and-fall-how-university-education-became-infantilised/
Here is the reporter that talked to me yesterday:
https://komonews.com/news/local/mirrormont-boil-order-bomb-cyclone-weather-damage-power-lines-southeast-of-issaquah-washington-state-windy-conditions-cleanup-efforts-water-quality#
I think I was the first person she encountered as she came in the front way. I had gone around some road closed signs and had come in the back way through the wreckage so I sent her over there. The area with above ground power is not technically in Mirrormont as MM proper has buried utilities.
Wow. Even The Guardian is savaging the Jaguar ad:
___________________________________
–Marina Hyde, “Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/jaguar-new-branding-cars-donald-trump
___________________________________
The article notes that a big rebranding campaign takes months to prepare, costing however many millions. Who knew Trump would be reelected and the world was swinging anti-Woke?
Wonderful timing.
It’s like the hippie production of “Hair” debuted just after Reagan won in 1980.
The Jaguar ad campaign is the sort of thing that happens to organizations living in left-wing bubbles.