possibly noteworthy wrote:

In the campus turmoil of 40 years ago, few would have anticipated the current "saturation of higher education with market thinking." His basic complaint was this: Campuses are no longer centers of rebellion. To which a junior at Yale responded:

"How do we rebel against a generation that is expecting, anticipating, nostalgic for revolution? How do we rebel against parents who sometimes seem to want revolution more than we do? We don't. We rebel by not rebelling. We wear the defunct masks of protest and moral outrage, but the real energy in campus activism is on the Internet."

Meanwhile, politics plods on as though nothing has happened.

I've been saying this for more than a decade. There's nothing post-modern about rebellion. That's not to say that people don't want change. Even fiercely. Or that change isn't good (because clearly, with the state of things, it is!). But the methods and mechanisms formerly used are inadequate. They've all been subverted and younger generations have no use for them, much like we don't use wash basins or ice boxes.