“The vast majority of graduation speakers are leftists and Democrats, predictably extolling diversity, globalism, identity politics, gender empowerment and – of course – climate change,” reports FoxNews’ Pete Hegseth. “You may have wasted a lot of time and money in college, but so did everyone else. Now is the time to open up your Bible, pick up a history book, and get a job. History is not over, and you can choose to be a part of it.” For the majority of students steeped in political correctness, “It’s Time to Unlearn College.”
One little-known exception to the majority feel good academia these days, however, can be found in the worldwide pocket of scientific and other technical elites who are silently celebrating World Metrology Day on May 20, 2019, when the redefinition of the International System of Base Units (SI) goes into effect. Our worldwide uniformity of measurement is today celebrating its 144th anniversary, says Wikipedia: “After the redefinition, the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole will be defined by setting exact numerical values for the Planck constant (h), the elementary electric charge (e), the Boltzmann constant (k), and the Avogadro constant (NA), respectively. The second, meter, and candela are already defined by physical constants and are subject to correction to their present definitions. The new definitions aim to improve the SI without changing the value of any units, ensuring continuity with existing measurements.”
The importance of this may escape most of today’s college graduates, but “back to the basics” advocates will see it as universally applicable to human transactions at every turn, as one source acknowledges: “the redefinition in the SI units will ensure uniformity worldwide and easy accessibility for ‘for all people, for all time’ which includes international trade, high-technology manufacturing, human health and safety, protection of the environment, global climate studies and the basic science.”
144 years ago, of course, takes us back to the French Revolution, when politically incorrect scientists like Lavoisier were publicly executed in 1794 during the Reign of Terror. Something good, the International System of Units, also was spawned along with something dark and sinister. We needed a better system of measurement, says Wikipedia again:
“The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système international (d’unités)) is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement. It comprises a coherent system of units of measurement built on seven base units, which are the ampere, kelvin, second, metre, kilogram, candela, mole, and a set of twenty prefixes to the unit names and unit symbols that may be used when specifying multiples and fractions of the units. The system also specifies names for 22 derived units, such as lumen and watt, for other common physical quantities.”
Like all basic knowledge, elementary units of engineering and science can be ignored by the average citizens, but only at their own peril.
Employing the highest levels of technical understanding, our worldwide business elites keep out of the public limelight. They deliver nonstop creature comforts and entertainments to the teeming billions. Even down-and-out immigrants marching on America’s southern border can afford to communicate with cell phones. People cluster around central televisions in the most humble Third World villages. Perhaps college graduates who have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the wiles of political correctness can claim a role as bureaucrats and salespeople in the New World Order.
The highest realms of scientific and technical understanding, of course, allow us glimpses into how God made the world. It is the best knowledge that mankind can come up with at this time about how the world works. It will keep changing, though the reality behind it is constant, like God. Is this knowledge being applied for good or for ill? All college graduates should enter an opinion, even those who live in China.
