Watching the revolution devour its children is both amusing and grotesque. It’s like something out of Goya to read that St. Francis Xavier University leapt into full grovel mode the instant some snowflake melted at the thought that going to university improved your chances in life. But it’s also something out of the French Revolution, apparently originating with Jacques Mallet du Pan: “A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants” aka “Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.”
In case you missed it, and who wouldn’t want to, St. Francis Xavier is honouring Brian Mulroney, who has lately become a hero to the left because he was so much more left-wing than Andrew Scheer, though as I recall at the time they hated him so much that when he stepped down as PM the opposition parties denied him the customary tribute. But I digress.
The point is, there’s a plaque at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at his alma mater including a quote from his father, back in 1955, when young Brian said he was going after an apprenticeship at the local mill in Baie-Comeau and dad replied: “The only way out of a paper mill town is through a university door.”
Oh. My. Goodness. Some very woke person hissed “As a social worker in training, I need to speak out against oppression and discrimination.” Right. Not at all presumptuous of a “social worker in training” to lecture a former PM on how to succeed. Or what it means. See it’s all relative. “Just because post-secondary education is your idea of success, that doesn’t mean that it’s everybody else’s. Living in a paper mill town is not an obstacle that you need to overcome.”
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