As the value of a Harvard diploma sinks faster than the price of taxi medallions after Uber comes to town and former presidents continue imploding over moral failings, it’s laying out the red carpet for a Dutch activist preaching not just resistance but revolution.
Say hello to Rutger Bregman, founder of the School for Moral Ambition.
“In some circles, you’d think the highest good is not to have any impact at all. A good life is then primarily defined by what you don’t do. Don’t fly. Don’t eat meat. Don’t have kids…the aim is to have the smallest footprint possible. Best-case scenario? Your impact on the planet is so negligible, you could just as well not have existed.”
I would surely be a mercy on the planet if Harvard graduates stopped existing.
But no. Bergman wants to redirect them into non-profits, NGOs, and advocacy groups. That’s where they can best use the skills they acquired at the Kremlin on the Charles to force the rest of us live the way they want us to.
To advance this noble cause, Harvard launched a summer fellowship program at the School for Moral Ambition where students can get practical indoctrination.
“Factory farming. I think that’s the greatest moral atrocity of our time and it’s the issue I probably care about the deepest,” Bergman laments. “Eighty billion animals suffering and slaughtered every year. I think historians will judge us very harshly for it.”
Don’t let other people fly. Don’t let other people eat meat. Don’t let other people have kids. That’s the way to bring meaning to your life! Especially if you can count on your family’s trust fund to support you when you devote your career to being an activist standing on the right side of history.


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