By now I’ve got used to the Isle of Man College
running ‘spiritual’adult education nightclasses with titles on the lines of
‘Release your Inner Llama’. It’s not as if Manx college tutors are actually capable
of teaching adults anything these days anyway. In fact their current range of
‘vocational’ courses illustrates exactly how low government expectations of the current and future workforce are.
But as the college brochure was chucked through the door
today I had a quick glimpse to see and giggle at what wacko delights were on
offer. And as ever, tucked amongst flower arranging and ‘how to
turn-a-computer-on’ type offerings was the now usual quasi-Buddhist emptyheadedness
for bored rich thickos, plus a sprinkling of other new age psychobabble such as
Reiki. A new departure was giving over to numerous, equally ill advised (not to
say imbecilic), explorations of ‘Celtic Christianity’ the chapel that came with
the premises for the now disgraced ‘business school’.Um… yes…. quite!
So far, so stupid. Far more serious is the involvement of Care for the Family, puppet of infamous
christocentric UK hate group CARE, in
a course on ‘Alcohol Awareness’ run by a governmental advisor on that very
topic. I have little doubt they will also poke their homophobic noses into
another course, theoretically on drug awareness. I also doubt if either course,
even without CftF’s ‘help’, would stand up to critical analysis. After all,
nothing else produced by the Chief Minister’s Task Farce on Alcohol and Drugs
has.
That might be because the Christian fundamentalist careerists who first proposed the project to a previous Chief Minister would never allow anyone who might have an academic or professional background in such topics to get involved in the first place. Apart from anything else, an informed person with even a modicum of social responsibility would be obliged to tell politicians what a dumb idea it is to give public money intended to prevent drug and alcohol dependency to those who deal in nastier alternatives. Alternatives which screw up families and make weak people socially and financially dependent on free-loaders for far more years than bargain basement vodka or heroin.
That might be because the Christian fundamentalist careerists who first proposed the project to a previous Chief Minister would never allow anyone who might have an academic or professional background in such topics to get involved in the first place. Apart from anything else, an informed person with even a modicum of social responsibility would be obliged to tell politicians what a dumb idea it is to give public money intended to prevent drug and alcohol dependency to those who deal in nastier alternatives. Alternatives which screw up families and make weak people socially and financially dependent on free-loaders for far more years than bargain basement vodka or heroin.
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