It's deep-seated. Jesus christ, how stupid is this woman that she can't write a single paragraph without getting something wrong? She's a professor at UCLA? Academia has gone past "joke" and into "sick mockery".
Academia is a sick joke with no redeeming qualities. Those at the top aren't the smartest or the most cunning or the most insightful - they're the ones who played the game the whole way up; they're the ones who kissed the right asses at the right time. Nothing more, nothing less.
Because it's just a continuation of the coddling indoctrination they get in public school. Because an increasing number of them were raised by women alone who gave them horrific advice like "don't rock the boat" and "it's important to fit in."
Also because they never once teach you to critically think about anything.
Grad students always seemed sad to me. Not sad as in pathetic; sad as in unhappy. It was the opposite of a ringing endorsement of academia as something to which a young man would want to commit.
It's deep-seated. Jesus christ, how stupid is this woman that she can't write a single paragraph without getting something wrong? She's a professor at UCLA? Academia has gone past "joke" and into "sick mockery".
Academia is a sick joke with no redeeming qualities. Those at the top aren't the smartest or the most cunning or the most insightful - they're the ones who played the game the whole way up; they're the ones who kissed the right asses at the right time. Nothing more, nothing less.
How do people go through college and not figure out that that system is fucked? I guess the only ones who stick around are ones who like it.
Because it's just a continuation of the coddling indoctrination they get in public school. Because an increasing number of them were raised by women alone who gave them horrific advice like "don't rock the boat" and "it's important to fit in."
Also because they never once teach you to critically think about anything.
Good points.
Grad students always seemed sad to me. Not sad as in pathetic; sad as in unhappy. It was the opposite of a ringing endorsement of academia as something to which a young man would want to commit.