A New Vision for Education

A Note on How to Build a RW Counter Elite

A friend of the college recently said to me: “Think about how you would take over the planet and then work backward from there.” In other words, rather than slowly building MCC to be adaptive or to “evolve,” in light of external circumstances, it ought to be sovereign and design its own destiny.

What would it mean for MCC to take over the planet?

It would mean playing a key role in developing a Right-wing counter elite who will populate a powerful galaxy of parallel institutions. These new institutions will not be bogged down in the prestige chasing rat race into which all other institutions are plunged. Harvard promises to provide a “transformative education”; but MCC will deliver on the promise of a mentally liberating education meant to actualize your full flowering. Besides, Harvard will not transform you. It will only ensure that there are guard rails on the educational path that don’t let you stray too far into “dangerous” ideas so you know what you aren’t allowed to talk about. At its worst, if it does succeed in transforming you, Harvard will help ensure that you can’t be free to think even in that which is your own-most thing: your mind.

The parallel institutions of the future will need thoughtful men of action in their ranks. So how do we make students into thoughtful men of action?

A Pathway to Thinking on Your Own

Each semester, in addition to taking a couple of courses, students will be required to undertake an independent study constructed in consultation with an instructor. At MCC, we will bring together men who want to understand nature and who will undertake noble deeds. Therefore each independent study will be oriented around either a question that the student wishes to understand or around a problem that the student wishes that will lead to action.

Our students will be the elites of the future; they will have and wield power and deserve to do so because of their excellence. So through these independent studies they will take responsibility for their own education and make concrete plans. Starting in their third year they are allowed to join forces with other students; MCC aims to launch friendships that are animated by great tasks.

The questions and problems should be of a dizzying variety (MCC obviously promotes diversity which is why we also promote nationalism). They can be:

Permanent questions: what is justice? What is nature? Does God exist? What is life? Why do civilizations decline? What is energy?

Timely questions: are there different modes of political organization besides the nation-state that are viable today? What technologies make us more human and which less? Can science be reclaimed from hyper-specialization?

Examples of problems include: is it possible to eliminate endocrine disruptors in our food and water? How do we eliminate stagnation in the sciences? How do we get to Mars? How do demographic changes effect political stability? What will the next monopoly company be? How do we make Americans fit and beautiful again?

Creative projects are also welcome to stand in for a question: producing movies, paintings, stories, new software, etc.

This paltry list of questions isn’t even the tip of the iceberg (to make the iceberg bigger, you should reply in the comments with other questions MCC students could pursue).

At the end of the semester students will be responsible for presenting their best articulation of the answer to their question or problem. In this way, the end of every semester will be a cornucopia of exciting ideas that will have been dug up from every corner of the cosmos. There will be an air of exhilaration and celebration during this time. Young people will be understanding the past and present while they prepare to shape the future.

MCC will deliberately be unaccredited so that it can’t be pulled into the horizon of respectability inducing pressures. This will create some hurdles for our students. But, because they will be so well versed in articulating what they have learned, and because they will learn something that is actually interesting, and because they will actually care about what they have learned, they will look like aliens compared to regular college graduates. They won’t be boring.

One Year or Four?

MCC will offer a four year degree. But because MCC encourages independent projects of the kind described above it is well suited for students to come for one year to work on their project in the most mentally stimulating place on the planet. That could be a gap year for a young person or a year of recharging for a titan of industry who has just sold his successful company and is trying to figure out what to do next. Thus, we will grant certificates / notice of successful completion of one year or two summers. And anyone who completes that year will be invited to be part of a network of graduates who will participate in the reconquista of the Western mind and world.