Doing it

  I'm starting to understand. I've always wondered what happened to people that went off to college to get that education and wound up taking a left turn. Just what happened? How could they spend four years of their life studying whatever, to end up being so clueless? More puzzling is the higher degree of education they get, the more clueless they become. And I'm not talking about common sense, you either have that or you don't, regardless of your education level. I'm just talking about understanding how the world actually works. That is where they seem to lose the clues. 

  I'm beginning to believe the answer is actually quite simple. If you get that higher education you can't just say what everyone else says, you're smarter than that, even when everyone else is right. I even had a tee shirt that something similar to that. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit. And I certainly hear a great deal of that from many college educated people. It is certainly on the rise, there is no denying that. It's no coincidence that rise corresponds with the amount of college degrees being "earned" these days. Consider a major course of study offered today. Gender studies! This what Google says that is: "It explores how gender intersects with other identities like race, class, and sexuality, and analyzes the impact of gender on social structures and cultural expressions." If that isn't a load of bullshit I don't know what is. Yeah, boys and girls react differently in society. I figured that out in kindergarten.

  But I'm thinking all of that is supposed to justify the expense of a college education. Smart people always say "new" things. You can't be smart by repeating past lessons. The proof of that is obtaining a PhD. A doctorate degree in philosophy. How do you get that? You read and repeat everything anyone else has ever written or said about a particular topic. You write your dissertation, citing all the references, and conclude by disagreeing with them all. You have to have a new philosophy! It doesn't have to actually be proven or anything, any old theory will do as long as it hasn't been offered before. That's why it takes an entire committee to decide on that award. All that is necessary is to baffle them with bullshit. 

  Now I'm not saying this sticks with everyone that attends a college or university. There are those that manage to see through the crap and gain the knowledge required to perform their jobs in their chosen profession. Higher education is a fine thing and one should never stop learning. The thing is, earning that degree, completing the course isn't accomplishing anything. It's like an old friend told me, knowing it isn't doing it, doing it is doing it! And that's where so many fall off the tracks, take that left turn and wind up disappointed, discouraged and their feelings hurt. But I have a degree! 

 Yeah, you do, now you have to actually do the job you went to school for, you don't start at top. If your major was gender studies, good luck with that. If your major was philosophy, good luck with that. A liberal arts degree may not be the best choice either. Another google quote, "a degree can still be valuable for personal growth and the development of transferable skills, even if it doesn't lead to a high-paying job immediately." How's that for some bullshit. You just went 80,000 dollars in debt but you got personal growth, LOL, now pay back that loan with your "transferable" skills. School is out!

  It's a funny thing. We will all quote famous people, authors and philosophers from the past. We provide those quotes as evidence to support our own thoughts. I agree with Einstein or Socrates so I must be educated. Being well read is vitally important. You must read and understand everything that has ever been written before you can call yourself educated. Then you can start saying something different from all of that as evidence of your superiority. Then that sometimes has an interesting effect. You start saying stupid crap. You haven't heard that crap before because, it is just stupid crap. That's the reason for that. Things like multiple genders. There are two, have always been two and will always be two. As far back as 1615 the saying was " the proof of the pudding is in the eating" that was said by Don Quixote. Education is the same way.