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rrpjr, we all have our blind spots, whether we are blinded by anger or something else. Also, if we get really far out on an ideological limb, then we also get into the uncomfortable position of having to say and defend stuff that's really thin. About colleges, you say they are "......intended to to produce amoral and joyless young people who don’t like their country."
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Superman: just an observation, nothing more.
I don't believe there is a grand conspiracy to produce joyless and unpatriotic amorality, so I may have used "intent" a bit too loosely. Rather, it just somehow seems endemic to post-modern campus liberalism. Though I do not rule out the idea that it perfectly suits the Left agenda (which dominates most campuses, does it not?) to produce a sort of chronically dissatisfied young person with no clear moral compass and no abiding loyalty to his country as it is curently fashioned.
To the issue of "joylessness," I could have done a better job there. What intrigues me, though, is what I see as a relationship between a sort of classic joylessness (or, more broadly put, an inability or unwillingness to engage the mind in a freely playful way, to poke fun at oneself or to even take some kind of true satisfaction [classic joy] in the exercise of honest intellectual self-critique) and the professional, careerist Left. It is something I've observed. Question a Leftist sacred cow and for the most part you are in for something other than joyful debate. Am I wrong?
It was always my belief that college should produce people who left with more supple, honest and open minds than when they entered. I have not found this to be true.
It is my observation that students leaving college today do not see the world in very well-defined moral terms, do not feel any sharper sense of appreciation for their country, and are not happier as a result of their educations, excepting the kind of hard, mercantile satisfaction they feel in their improved earning power.