There has been a real misunderstanding from conservatives regarding what has happened in universities. There has been a real complacency that the deconstruction and inversion of ideas and the perverse worldviews that have been summoned by the radical left are in a vacuum and will not permeate out into the world.

There is a feeling that these radical thought games are just a phase and will be grown out of when the realities of the world comes into focus. This I feel has been proven false since these radical ideas have blown through into the mainstream in a matter of years.

A major reason for this misapprehension is maybe their own experience of university life. There was always the positive case that university was a factory of ideas which could could collide or blend. The great freedom that academia allows is for the abstract to be considered and contemplated and sometimes even truths can be revealed.

This is one of the great enlightenment traditions and as the abstract normally stays exactly there when met with hard realities, it is understandable for conservatives to believe that these rather unconventional and dangerous ideas will be quarantined as a thought experiment.

Unfortunately this authoritarian subjectivism that to many is known as woke is not in line with the enlightenment traditions of rationality and reason and free thinking. It is in fact hugely hostile to these, it is based on denying the possibility of empathy and that subjective feeling and emotion is the most important driver to revealing truth.

It is in fact much more akin to a cult and dogmatic allegiance. There is not a laboratory of ideas, there is one single thought and idea, their idea and if you don't agree with it you better get in agreement soon. As with any cult once indoctrinated the drones are then tasked with recruitment and propagation of the dogma.

It is obvious that this is very different from the enlightenment values and produces very different people, instead of free thinking individuals we have authoritarian robots who far from leaving their thought games at the door in fact have a single mission to bring their worldview into society and enforce it on the heretics.