Next: professional development week!

Next week is "Professional Development Week," something I regard with utter cynicism and despair. At this point, I contemn anyone who partakes of it without noisy and constant disapprobation. 

This year, PD themes are: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Pedagogy; IT/Technology; Health and Wellness; and "Returning to Campus." Yep. Imagine the spin, the self-deception, the wokedness.

—Kill me now. [It's not all bad, of course. I'm sure there's good stuff here and there. E.g., the session on critical race theory should be interesting: I know most of the presenters.]

DAVID HUME: 

"Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would shew him, as a specimen of its ills, an hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcases, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? [To freakin' professional development week?] He might justly think, that I was only shewing him a diversity of distress and sorrow."

(Time to retire, I think.)

I wonder sometimes if American TV—or American college—is fundamentally different. 

Some kind of mad circus.