I noticed that American colleges/universities are just propaganda centers, people come out dumber, more polarized and in great debt. Most don’t even like their career.
No, I regret going to college in America. Not like I ever had the money to leave…
Yes, well sort of, I got a damn good education at a NE liberal arts school in a STEM degree at a decent well rounded school, but my society turned around and rejected this generation of scientists and thinkers and my degree did little to provide me opportunity, it mostly made me awkwardly overqualified for most jobs I could actually get. Further the science jobs you can get, people treat you like shit because they assume you must be really passionate about doing science so they fuck you over knowing you will stay committed with the hopes of getting one of a small number of actually good jobs.
I don’t regret actually getting my degree, it wasn’t full of propaganda, people definitely came out of my college smarter and less polarized… what I regret is getting a degree and NOT leaving this piece of shit country when I had a chance.
The US has spent the years since I graduated curb stomping intellectualism and applying extreme austerity to spaces that encouraged and rewarded critical thought. It makes me feel actively hated for desiring to understand the universe around me, it is a feeling so overbearing it is in the damn air here.
It isn’t being immersed in the anti-intellectualism that really drains my life force though, it is being immersed in a societally enforced inveitability to anti-intellectualism eventually winning out. We can deal with COVID for a bit, but once the anti-intellectual crowd decides we are done we are done and everybody who gets sick after that can fuck off and die. We can care about climate change for awhile but once we decide we are done we are done and are going to ignore it completely… the list goes on and on…
My adult life has been a slow march of more and more of this while most people around me utterly ignored why this was so soulcrushing.
shrugs
Hang in there friend
You sounded like you might have known what’s going on for the first 80% of the comment. But your problem is that you think COVID and climate change is important. They aren’t. The climate is always changing darling that’s the point. The sun cycle (research).
Now COVID, propaganda from the very beginning. Surely now that untested vaccine that literally isn’t even a vaccine came out (look up what mRNA really is). If you are into science you know the you don’t put untested products into people.
They want people to be dumb yes. So intellectuals are frowned upon.
Excuse me, you dropped this
Wow you sound just like the kinds of people I was shitting on!
Your ignorance is genuinely terrifying to me. I opened this post because your question is mostly legit. I have an undergrad and a masters degree, and while I don’t regret getting them, I will be in debt for the rest of my life. There are a lot of institutional and structural issues with higher education in the US, but most of them boil down to it being a profit business and not strictly a knowledge business. That fact has a lot of knock-on effects, many of which aren’t super obvious unless you’re entrenched in academia. But importantly, that doesn’t mean the knowledge isn’t still valuable or worthwhile.
Your comment might as well be an advertisement for why higher education (or really any education) is critically important for a functional society. You’re so fundamentally wrong about all of it, and it sure seems like you’re stubbornly unwilling to learn about the nature of reality, so I don’t think college would be a good fit for you.
You’re going to be in debt for life your opinion can’t be of value to me as you clearly didn’t think it through. You haven’t even explained how I’m wrong.
why would you say such a ridiculous, hyperbolic thing? You “noticed” it? Did you create the facebook boomer illustration or “notice” it somewhere too?
OP must have noticed it on tons of far-right web pages.
That’s right I was the first person to ever notice it. I also brought it to the attention of all the world countries, they are actually thinking of putting me in the history books as the person who discovered it. 💅🏻
You can thank me now
Nah, I went to college as a Pirate.
OP supports eugenics and genocide.
American colleges/universities are just propaganda centers
I feel like my public education from kindergarten thru high school was much more of a propaganda pipeline than my public university education. We didn’t do the pledge of allegiance in uni, nor were we taught the Revolutionary War 8 times over
people come out dumber, more polarized and in great debt
Dumber? No, they might come out more book-smart than street-smart but there are different kinds of intelligence and we need all of them. Polarized? That’s the entire country, regardless of education, and the media has much more to do with that than anything else. Great debt? Yes.
Most don’t even like their career
I’m sure plenty of blue-collar workers hate their jobs too. It’s work, not leisure
Other than the part about debt your view of university is completely divorced from reality. People are there to learn and prep for careers and there is no propaganda as part of the education.
If you think people are “polarized” it’s because you’re a right wing loser that doesn’t understand that people are more the same than different which people tend to learn when they interact with people that are different from them which tends to happen in college.
All of a sudden Americans aren’t polarized? Sure. The plethora of ideologies being taught through universities that have nothing to do with academics is outstanding. If you are part of the propaganda or victim to it you don’t even realize it exist
Americans are definitely polarized, it’s not because of college. It’s abundantly clear you wouldn’t have any experience with college though
Too much experience with it unfortunately.
You’re not fooling anyone lol
I don’t care if you believe it or not. The crown is on
Not at all and your description—debt aside—is woefully inaccurate. I’m not really sure where you even could have gotten that impression unless you’ve been mainlining Fox News.
What’s your degree in?
I hold BAs in both Computer Science and Philosophy. My friends have degrees across Biology, History, Political Science, and Astronomy, and all found their education equally rewarding.
OK so maybe you were able to avoid those types. They were everywhere in my state and school at the time
K-12 school is way more propaganda than university.
I mean, daily pledge of allegiance and national anthem, for one.
Have you see these mask wearing, 10 plus political sub group layman’s coming out of these universities? That’s not independent decisions turning them into that
