I agree mostly, except the part about engaging with them. Arguing with an intellectual is like mud wrestling with a pig - you both wind up covered in muck but the pig actually likes it!
Instead, we should get word out that _some_ college degrees aren't worth the price. They don't provide marketable skills beyond what should have been lear…
I agree mostly, except the part about engaging with them. Arguing with an intellectual is like mud wrestling with a pig - you both wind up covered in muck but the pig actually likes it!
Instead, we should get word out that _some_ college degrees aren't worth the price. They don't provide marketable skills beyond what should have been learned in High School. Also, if a person must work 3 jobs to pay rent and student loans, then they don't have time & energy to ponder all the deep thoughts that these degrees introduce. It is just a waste. I call these 'dilettante degrees' because only kids with trust funds can afford to major in them.
Going to college nowadays is like entering indentured servitude - you have to work the rest of your life to earn your freedom. How ironic they bandy about decolonization when they are the biggest colonizers of the modern era.
I agree mostly, except the part about engaging with them. Arguing with an intellectual is like mud wrestling with a pig - you both wind up covered in muck but the pig actually likes it!
Instead, we should get word out that _some_ college degrees aren't worth the price. They don't provide marketable skills beyond what should have been learned in High School. Also, if a person must work 3 jobs to pay rent and student loans, then they don't have time & energy to ponder all the deep thoughts that these degrees introduce. It is just a waste. I call these 'dilettante degrees' because only kids with trust funds can afford to major in them.
Going to college nowadays is like entering indentured servitude - you have to work the rest of your life to earn your freedom. How ironic they bandy about decolonization when they are the biggest colonizers of the modern era.