Vain Jangling
Those who attend higher education are believed to be mature, intelligent, future leaders for a productive society.
What is the purpose of attending higher education? To pursue further learning? To develop skillsets for a specific job market? To achieve a degree or degrees toward opportunities in leadership positions? Students attend for various reasons—But one would think it would include to better themselves and those around them.
However, what we are seeing today is anything but higher education, mature, intelligent, future leaders, with a (honest) desire to better themselves, others, and the institutions. What is being exposed is the depravity of mankind, by way of misinformation, rejection of truth, with a desire for destruction of property, persons, and the very rights that give them free speech and peaceful (peaceful) protests.
It is vain jangling to believe one is achieving moral high ground and are worthy of respect when their chants and actions point toward anarchy, extremists, terrorists, and the like. We should not expect or accept lower expectations by higher education. If one believes change is needed—Go about it the right, moral, legal, intelligent way. It is mere vain jangling for one to believe these actions are anything other than hatred, riotous, intolerance.
“We do not negotiate with terrorists.”
One who favors or uses terrorizing methods for the accomplishment of some object, as for coercing a government or a community into the adoption of or submission to a certain course; one who practises terrorism.
—American Heritage® Dictionary
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