Uncle Nino

Recent events involving the University of Colorado, my alma mater, have once more brought to the cultural, social, and political forefront an important discussion and related questions. Questions such as: How important and worthwhile is a college education, when those who are presented as educators are, in fact, frauds and liars? Questions such as: What do these recent events, resulting in concerning and disturbing revelations, actually mean for the future of higher education?

Not even five years ago such discussions would have been quickly discouraged and effectively censored, because allowing them to continue would only go to reveal certain equally ugly and concerning truths and facts about the mainstream news media, which presently is adamant in its defense of said events at CU-Boulder.

That was then. This is now. And now, with the advent of the web log or blog, such events, such discussions and questions are getting due consideration and resolution. More often than not at the expense of the news media, specifically its credibility and respectability.

In an effort to gain a sufficient and proper understanding of the events transpiring at the University of Colorado in Boulder I have, of late, taken to reading blogs, whose focus and thrust is these events, and related truths and facts. In reading these blogs I find myself reading comments made by others readers.

Recently, on one blog, whose focus is entertainment, there came a rather heated discussion and exchange between the owner of the blog and several hundred readers otherwise known in the parlance as 'trolls': Individuals who apparently have nothing better to do with their time and energy than visit blogs and incite riots of sorts. The owner of the blog could have readily and quickly silenced this riot by disallowing all comments regarding the contents of his blog, but to do so would have only served to satisfy the trolls, who argued it was the blogger, not the news media or higher education, who practices censorship.

Instead, he let the exchage continue, and in doing so encouraged a revelation, with regards to culture, social, and political events: Non-news media types are a lot smarter, better educated, and more informed than would be readily admitted by members of the news media, who tend to look down on The Great Unwashed Masses.

Curious as to where this emotionally-charged exchange might go I made a deliberate decision not to engage in it. Doing so I believed would prevent the events transpiring from being influenced unnecessarily, and preserve a measure of objectivity to them.

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