Ripped off by racist right wing Republicans. Again. Who will teach the class now? Some first year, underpaid, unprepared, and overworked lecturer, right? Or maybe even a Teaching Assistant? Yep, everybody screwed again!
Personally I didn't like this professor, not at all, talking about the state "investing" in students in anticipation of a monetary "return" on that investment. Fuck that shit. I had better high school teachers than that even in a school that was "Lord of the Flies" most of the time. I quit high school for college to escape the violence. I had such a high SAT score that my grades (or missing the Senior Prom) didn't matter. I was still considered among the top 10% of students in California.
Maybe the successful students will leave Michigan and do something creative that may or may not make money but makes the world a better place, and not because they wanted to be "successful" by venal pathetic U.S.A. standards, but just because it seemed the right thing to do and they had a talent for it. Maybe they'll take on some altruistic kind of work that pays like crap because Republicans are full of shit. Something like teaching in a rotten city or abandoned rural areas. Maybe they'll live by a pond and write a book that makes the world a better place, much more than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs ever "accomplished."
I quit the Sierra Club and CALPIRG because they were basically consumer groups. I've never wanted to be a "consumer." I think Ralph Nader is a loathsome narcissist. I think that the consumerist lifestyle is over-rated. I have more fun dumpster-diving than I do shopping in a big-box store. I drive a 1984 car with a salvage title. It cost $800. If someone gave me a brand new car I'd give it to someone who needed it and wanted a brand new car. I don't.
I'm mostly a Luddite. I don't respect our culture and it doesn't respect me. I intend to keep my soul until the very end, even if I die on the streets with a beer in one hand, a dirty magazine in the other, and a smile on my face.
Anyways, I'm not a "blind partisan" of any sort. I mock it all. If you were a Registered Republican at any point after the Eisenhower era I wouldn't have liked you. Nixon was obvious scum, and Reagan was worse.
I wouldn't vote for more than a few Democrats either except that most Republicans really ARE racist assholes and the rest are utterly clueless.
Please feel free to criticize my grammar.
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