This Is Sparta

It does rather capture a default dynamic.

2017 needed a hero.
He answered the call…..

Student left in a nutshell. 🙂
With signature modesty, the ‘protestors’ assert some imagined territorial and proprietary claim to a shared space that these self-indulgent shit stains are merely passing through, while deliberately frustrating anyone else’s attempt to use the space for its intended purpose. They disregard normal boundaries and behave obnoxiously, selfishly, because it makes them feel important, and powerful.
And yet they imagine themselves as righteous and heroic.

They disregard normal boundaries and behave obnoxiously, selfishly, because it makes them feel important, and powerful.
If only there were some grown-ups left on campus to tell them that.
Fancy the job?

Fancy the job?
Before the end of the first week there’d be a suspicious electrical fire.

Librarians rule, ook.
But of course.

The Librarian is a faculty member, and so he must have once been a human wizard. A strong wave of magic, altering reality, transformed the Librarian into an orang-utan, Pongo pongo, native of Bhangbhangduc and nearby islands; at that time, his colleagues still remembered how he looked as a human (The Light Fantastic). Back then, wizards were much too busy to help him get back to his original human form (although there is no record of his asking for help, either). After things settled down, the Librarian’s colleagues found that he liked being an orang-utan, and fought all efforts to transform him back to human. The Librarian found out that opposable toes come in very handy when climbing up the book-shelves and sorting books. Also, a very large and strong orang-utan has more plausible arguments when talking about dog-ears and overrun return deadlines. Although the senior wizards looked very hard for one, there are no rules in the university constitution forbidding an orang-utan to be a member of the college council.

Sadly not unlike libraries in the UK now. I went to one after not visiting one for about twenty years, and the difference was palpable.
Where once a stern librarian enforced quiet to allow others to read, now it was practically bedlam. Twats lounging around talking loudly on phones, groups loudly conversing, even a fucking creche in the corner with small kids running around screaming.
Presumably enforcing quiet now is not ‘inclusive’, so anything goes. Every time I hear a weepy appeal about local councils being unable to fund libraries (they can, of course), I remember what it was like.

Send him some cake.
[ Grabs fistful of chocolate sponge, shoves it in envelope. Licks fingers. ]

Heh

… while deliberately frustrating anyone else’s attempt to use the space for its intended purpose.
The purpose is to be obnoxious, not to persuade or to even express displeasure at some (imaginary) offense. After all, it’s hard to imagine a modern, left-leaning university library being chock full of the sort of people the miscreants are seeking to evangelize. The whole episode is merely a bunch of wankers trying to slap an SJW patina on there on childishness.

I think I recognize this guy, he stood in front of a tank in Tiananman Square.

The purpose is to be obnoxious
And, being self-indulgent wankers, the quiet was only temporary, lasting maybe five seconds. Because the protestors’ need for loud and fatuous grandstanding overrides the needs of anyone else trying to study or do actual work.

“I’d like a large latte please, but first I have to give a lecture.”
I’m assuming that has to be a comedy sketch. Though it’s telling of the times that I’m not entirely sure.

With signature modesty, the ‘protestors’ assert some imagined territorial and proprietary claim to a shared space that these self-indulgent shit stains are merely passing through, while deliberately frustrating anyone else’s attempt to use the space for its intended purpose. They disregard normal boundaries and behave obnoxiously, selfishly, because it makes them feel important, and powerful.
And yet they imagine themselves as righteous and heroic.
All. Of. That. 🙂

“A fucking creche in the corner”?
Used to have to do that in the stacks, when I was in school.

Librarians rule, ook.
Librarians are some of the most consistently, virulently leftist of academic staff. They control what books are in the library, and they use that power ruthlessly.
Where once a stern librarian enforced quiet to allow others to read, now it was practically bedlam.
I know around here there seems to be a powerful movement to turn libraries into a kind of community center, providing activities and services completely unrelated to the housing and cataloguing of books, even in cities that already have ample community centers.

This is Sparta
If only he’d followed up with a swinging leg kick, knocking the insufferable idiot with the megaphone into a bottomless pit, that would have made my day.

Seems as good a time as any to quote myself:

It’s interesting just how often “social justice” posturing entails something that looks an awful lot like spite or petty malice, or an attempt to harass and dominate, or some other obnoxious behaviour. Behaviour that, without a “social justice” pretext, might get you called a wanker or a bitch. A coincidence, I’m sure.

Right. Time for wine.

Reminds me the the Black Lives Matter protest/assault in an American university library where the BLM “protesters” broke into reading rooms and shouted at and insulted various other (mostly white) students who were trying to study…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3321190/F-filthy-white-s-Black-Lives-Matter-protesters-scream-epithets-white-students-studying-Dartmouth-library.html

“As a Hillary Clinton supporter, I only care about other people’s dreams.”
The sentence following that should be “That’s all right I’ll tell you what to dream.”

Members of a university have ample opportunity to debate. That, to a large extent is what universities are for. There are informal conversations with fellow students, informal conversations which also include senior members of the university, more formal debates in clubs and societies set up for that purpose, student publications and so on. If there isn’t a forum to explore what you want to explore, then you can easily set up a club to enable you and those of similar mind to do just that. While at university, the people around you are open to engagement and inclined to be indulgent.
If you find yourself at university and unable to express yourself except in the manner seen in the clip above, then you probably shouldn’t be at university. You’re wasting time and money. You are, in short, a twat.

Can’t they do this in one of their “safe spaces” and leave everyone else alone? What am I missing?

Who has the power? We have the power
What kind of power? Equal power
If you have equal power, then you don’t have it alone, because everybody else has it too. Right?

A video that neatly sums up why China could supplant the US as no.1 superpower.
Not likely. If that were the case, the fellow would be in China . . . .