Posted by alexandra_k on October 25, 2015, at 22:40:37
In reply to Re: better-ish, posted by alexandra_k on October 25, 2015, at 22:06:14
I guess this is how much of the world is. That's why people who leave... Tend to hang around philosophy. Tend to go on a lot about how wonderful the people are. Because it is true. People who have a genuine curiosity about the world. Often a curiosity about what it means / is to be a genuinely good person. Or about what it is to be wise. People who embrace things that are hard and who come to learn to love complexity and ambiguity.
I like learning stuff in science... But I don't like how many people seem motivated by money or hierarchy considerations. I don't like how people seem keen to snigger at others for being stupid or whatever when it isn't about stupid it is that they have heard things 9 times before whereas other people are hearing it for the first time. On the other hand it does get tiresome hearing people ask (what does seem to be) the same questions over and over and over and over and over...
Things are feeling random. Hard work... Is needed. Sure. I really genuinely do see / get that. But it really isn't any guarantee. Your fate is also partly determined by things like whether the people over the road decide to have a party so you aren't well slept before your exam... Or whether they thought that grades should be determined by popularity contest...
I guess I was odd before in having such consistently high grades...
I can't tell how much people have consistenly high grades here / anymore... Or what is common to those people (if it really does come down to things being cumulative so the kids from certain high schools)... I don't have any kind of faith that the process is objective. That it is anonymous. Replicable. Etc. Perhaps this was obvious to others. That's a frightening realisation. To see that there are a bunch of idiots in charge of things, indeed. To better preserve the idocy. For the good of themselves.
Or perhaps the thing is that I'm not like them so it is a clash of interests insofar as it's not what's good for me.
There isn't really a genine proper place for higher learning anymore, is there. Not sure why I thought that there was... I guess people like NEwton etc did poorly in school... Weren't liked by academia.. Journals these days are more like those stupid grading rubrics than I'd like to think... Especially these days with the internet... The idea seems to be the more references the better and people are only really referencing the title (oh look! a title agrees with me! that lends more weight to my opinion!) not even reading the abstract... certainly not reading the whole article... decidedly not trying to follow their method and / or make sense of their data handling.
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