Toby Young’s resume is written like this: Born in 1963; during his career as a journalist, he was expelled from many prestigious newspapers and magazines, including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and Vanity Fair. . He currently lives in London.
When I first read this book, I thought he was cheap. Toby Young graduated from Oxford. His father is an intellectual who is enthusiastic about public welfare. He belongs to the "from outstanding to outstanding" type of figure. He was knighted in 1978 for his contributions to the previous Labour Party governments; his mother created a film The award-winning novel is the editor of an educational magazine. Born in such a family and received excellent higher education, Toby Young’s biggest hobby is to run behind the celebrities’ buttocks, and that’s the kind that doesn’t take into account the face of the person. In his words, he wanted to kneel down when he saw Tom Cruise at the first Oscar party held by Vanity Fair. But Toby Young is at least frank, he never hides his enthusiasm for celebrities. He said that his friends who "despise" celebrities, when they see a celebrity, even the hair on their forehead will be attracted by the celebrity's direction. In Toby Young's mind, heaven is to be able to roll around the money pile with the busty actress Anna Nicole Smith naked, without the slightest self-blame.
But don't be fooled by appearances. People who like celebrities are not necessarily shallow people. Toby Young devoted a chapter to recalling his reflection on the political correctness movement that was prevailing in the United States at that time when he was a student at Harvard in the 1980s. He wrote:
"I completely agree with Bloom’s point of view, but what astounds me the most about political correctness is not this belief itself, but the dogmatism shown by its followers. For Americans, this is no surprise. Strange, but I spent three years in Oxford, where the atmosphere of academic freedom is almost decadent, so Harvard University’s intolerance to dissent shocked me. As long as someone disagrees with the new orthodox point of view, they will automatically be labeled "racism." The consequences of the labels of "people", "male supremacists" or "homophobias" are as serious as those faced by people labeled "communists" in the McCarthy era.
As a result, not many people dare to disagree with the creed of political correctness. The most surprising thing at Harvard is the lack of real academic diversity. In Oxford, from revolutionary Marxism to naked fascism, every political viewpoint has the opportunity to be presented. When I was studying philosophy, politics, and economics at Brasnos College, Oxford University, the opinions and opinions of the ten students in the class were much more than the opinions and opinions of my entire class at Harvard. Cultural relativists may think that it is necessary to present a variety of different viewpoints to students, but in reality, only one viewpoint is accepted, that is, cultural relativism. This is not like an American university at the end of the twentieth century, but more like a Spanish university in the fifteenth century. "
Of course, this kind of reflection cannot be the subject of a book written by someone like Toby Young. In the interval of reflection, he also interspersed with memories of his life at Harvard. Especially--
"Although I don't smoke, I still I chose to live in a smoking dormitory; because I believe girls who smoke are easier to get. But this is not the case. They spend all their time inspecting the behavior of boys in the dormitory, trying to find signs of sexism. Those who want to have sex with these "persecutors" must abide by a strange statute called the "Antioch law", according to this statute, at every stage of the seduction process, you must obtain Women’s permission, such as: "Can you touch your left breast, or do you prefer me to keep my hand on your waist?" In the 1980s, the Antioch Act may be better than AIDS in suppressing promiscuity on American campuses. Popularity plays a greater role.
Since the Fulbright scholarship only covers living expenses, in order to earn tuition money, I became a special graduate student of the Academy of Arts and Sciences (teaching fellow, a student who enjoys a scholarship but needs to concurrently perform certain teaching tasks-Annotation). This gives me the opportunity to meet many beautiful girls every day, but I can't go beyond the thundering pool. According to another set of regulations, unless at least three people are always present, I cannot interact with any of my students outside the classroom. I can understand the prohibition of meeting them alone-as a white European male, how could he give up the opportunity to pounce on an unsuspecting American girl? But why can't meet two girls? Presumably, I might be in danger of engaging in a "threesome". "
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