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Sep 23 2008

Shelling Out for Mediocrity

Published by gaiarady at 1:15 am under Uncategorized Edit This

L.L.C is off to a four year education, at roughly 20k a year, for a grand total of 80k. Her parents were perfectly prepared to spend more, too. In fact, I hear they were disappointed she didn’t get into a more ‘prestigious’ east-coast school. I would find it amusing, if I didn’t find it pathetic, that these people are shelling out eighty thousand dollars (probably before spending money, food, gas, etc.) to have their daughter further indoctrinated and brainwashed by modern academia. 

Doesn’t that just sound like money well spent?

When I learned that they were prepared to spend that much (and potentially more!) on this completely frivolous exploit to ‘educate’ their daughter, I could only wonder this: if she asked them to simply give her the cash, rather than waste it on the stupid university, would they let her have it? Would they let her use it to move out and invest as she chose? 

$80,000 goes a long way if one knows what one is doing. She’d never ask them for it, and as it is, she’s looking forward to the whole sordid ordeal for who knows what reason.

Realistically, two people could live together, quite comfortably and eating healthy food, on $16,000 a year. They wouldn’t save anything unless they were very penny pinching indeed, but they could eat healthfully, have electricity, water/sewer, high speed internet, a phone line, and even drive a car a moderate amount of the time. 

For five years, she could potentially live without much worry and be free to be her own person, to learn at her own pace and to pursue productive endeavors – but instead, she is off to college. What a glorious world we live in, isn’t it?

What school is worth that much money — when they don’t teach anything about overpopulation, when they don’t teach the truth about philosophy, or even about objective reality. You actually come out more stupid than when you went in. There is not one word about extraterrestrials, about degenerate governments, or even about basic self control and responsibility.

Since when, for instance, was ‘insanity’ a reason for someone to get away with cold-blooded murder? Doesn’t one have to be insane to murder another person? Since when was not getting a certain drug, or being given too much of a certain drug, a reasonable excuse for abusing others, for behaving degenerately, etc.?

 It’s all a load of crap. If the population wish to act like out of control monsters, than they deserve to be controlled. It is not freedom to abuse oneself or others, to behave as degenerately as one wishes, or to let oneself go in excesses. If they want to abuse their freedoms like that, then they deserve to have them taken away. Most people deserve to have almost all aspects of their life dictated to them and controlled. They deserve freedom over their mind and their physical bodies, little more. They do not deserve to have the power to make others miserable, to act inhumanely and degenerately, or to have children to abuse and mistreat.

Generally speaking, if the populace wish to behave like out of control peasants, then they deserve feudalism; they deserve vassalage, they deserve to have masters and to have strict laws which govern their behaviour. Outcast societies should be unilaterally banned; allowing an outcast group to form their own culture around being downtrodden and vengeful is never a good idea. Anyone who must be banished should be kept in strict, observed isolation.

 What happened to Meritocracy? Why do people so fear a despotism of the wise?

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2 Responses to “Shelling Out for Mediocrity”

  1. threedegreeson 23 Sep 2008 at 10:50 am edit this

    Yes. Exactly. Just like in Afghanistan. Or Venezuela. Or Pol Pot’s Cambodia. Or North Korea. That’s what we need. Totalitarianism. Who needs an education when you can go kill some feckin’ Arabs. I don’t know what era you live in, but in 2008, $16,000 don’t pay the bills. Unless your rent is under $300 a month, and you grow all of your own food, don’t need lights or electricity, heat, or water, and work from home. I’ve seen a lot of asinine posts here, but this one wins the booby prize.

  2. jackalopesforalon 23 Sep 2008 at 4:01 pm edit this

    You talk about a meritocracy, but how in the world would these worthy people be chosen if not by something standardized like education? By the number of times they Google U.F.O. or the readership of their ranting blog? I was entertained very much by this post, mainly because I am myself a college student and plan on becoming a professor myself so I can further indoctrinate the young. And what makes you think someone who does not go to college is more savvy than someone who does? Give the world a little credit, eh. College students have minds, they don’t just inscribe every word their professor says directly onto their brains. Heaven forbid they did, because that kind of person would listen to a rant like this. Also, strictly on a financial note, you yourself admit it takes 16,000 dollars for someone to live a scrimp and save lifestyle for a year, so why shouldn’t they pay the extra 4,000 for a chance to learn something and make some friends?

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