The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC)—pronounce the acronym slowly to appreciate the pretensions—unveils itself as a meticulously engineered Trojan Horse wheeled in to colonize the Schools of Engineering and Science.
Crafted by SHASS Dean Agustín Rayo (philosopher-king in the land of innumerates) and Provost Anantha Chandrakasan (STEM’s smarmy quisling-in-chief), this $3 million annual operation smuggles the Woke Mind Virus past the hallowed gates of the world’s leading STEM university under the cover of “human-centered thinking.”
In the belly of said hollow horse hides three divisions of fifth columnists.
The Diversity Division’s Living Climate Futures Lab spreads global warming alarmism to all four corners of the earth, dispatching “lived experience” researchers to places like … Mongolia. Because anthropologists prescribing hot-brick stove solutions to replace demon coal worked so brilliantly.
The Postmodern Platoon’s “Great Books Initiative” slips in Virginia Woolf (the miserable madwoman who drowned herself) alongside the pernicious Simone de Beauvoir and communist W.E.B. DuBois. Somehow, dead white male William Shakespeare missed the bus. Call it canon curation as intellectual reparations. Shakespeare’s universal insights apparently don’t translate across marginalized demographics.
The Bureaucratic Battalion coordinates “Meeting of the Minds” networking sessions, where engineers are trained to deconstruct colonial power structures.
The operation succeeds because MIT’s STEM faculty suffer from advanced Stockholm Syndrome. After years of DEI bludgeoning, they’ve been conditioned to welcome their oppressors without complaint. And make no mistake, MITHIC is just one part of a broader program to rebrand and camouflage DEI as it burrows into the departments.
Sure, the $3 million price tag is a trifle compared to MIT’s vast administrative bloat. But the real cost? Virginia Woolf escaped her existential angst at the bottom of a river. Do we really want to pass her afflictions on to the next generation of scientists and engineers?