Back in the 1960s when I worked in the Abilene Christian development office, one of the worlds richest men named H.L. Hunt offered to buy the college, offer huge salaries to the faculty and free tuition to the students, so long as he could choose certain faculty such as those in business and political science. Assistant President John Stevens told about the offer in a staff meeting I attended, where he ranged between incredulity and hilarity as he envisioned how quickly the school would lose its accreditation, not to mention its soul. Billionaire Hunt had other ideas for changing society, which he included in a utopian novel titled Alpaca. At the time it was ridiculed for such things as letting the rich have more votes than the poor, and banning political advertising from sources such as TV where demagogues could persuade the naïve. After todays Supreme Court decision to decriminalize limitless secret donations to our election campaigns, the ideas of Hunt dont seem nearly so far to the right to me, as the Court has moved even further to the right.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 21:32:20 +0000
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