what advice would you have for students
how can students make the changes that
they want to make particularly do you
yeah read great books mm-hmm really them
you’ve got this four year period that
has been carved out of your lives by
society they it’s given you an identity
I like a high quality identity and
freedom at the same time and you’re not
gonna get that again in your life you’ve
got a you’ve got a respectable identity
University student and complete freedom
associated with that or as near as
you’re ever going to get and you’ve got
these unbelievable libraries that are
full of the writings of people who are
intelligent and articulate beyond
comprehension and you know and and you
can go there and you can learn all this
and you might think well why should you
learn it well you’ve learned it to get a
job or you learn it to get good grades
or you learn it to get a degree and
that’s all nonsense it’s nonsense
the reason that you come to university
to be educated is because there is
nothing more powerful than someone who
is articulate and you can think and
speak power and I mean power of the best
sort its authority and influence and
respectability and competence and so you
come to university to craft your highest
skill and your highest skill is to be
found in articulated speech and if
you’re if you’re if you’re a master of
formulating your arguments you win
everything and better than that when you
win everything everyone around you wins
– because to transform yourself and to
let’s consider you consider your
transformation to something
approximating the logos it means you
shine a light on the whole world well
there’s nothing more exciting to do than
that there’s nothing better you can
possibly do and to think that you’re
coming to university to be you know
trained to have a job it’s like great
that’s a hell of a lot better than being
unemployed and covered with cheeto dust
while you’re snacking away in front of
your video game in the basement you’re
spectacular you’re you’re all capable of
being world beaters you transform
yourself into something that’s
articulated and sensible and grounded in
history and knowledgeable and wise man
you can do anything you want and
hopefully anything you want for good
because if you have any sense everything
you want to do would be for the good
because there’s nothing more compelling
or meaningful or
or useful in combating the tragedy of
life than to than to struggle with all
your soul on behalf of the good and the
universities have forgotten that it’s
why everyone’s bailing out of the
humanities and they should humanities
are corrupt and they’re corrupt because
they’re not telling students this it’s
so bloody obvious it’s like learn to
think learn to speak
learn to read it makes you a superpower
an individual superpower you have and I
don’t understand why that isn’t just
told to students it’s not that hard to
understand it everyone wants to hear
it’s like really I could do this I could
do that like yeah really you could do
that and the whole society around you is
labored for really thousands of years to
provide every single one of you with
this spectacular opportunity that you
have while you’re undergraduates and
graduate students here yeah they’re just
everyone’s just praying that you would
come here and manifest everything that
you could manifest and that’s what you
should be doing instead of waving
placards and complaining about how
you’re oppressed for God’s sake the only
reason you’re not rich is because you’re
young you know that’s the best really
that’s them if you look at the 1% even
the dreaded 1% you know most of those
people are always why well when you
progress through life if you’re
reasonably successful you trade in your
promising used for your wealthy old age
but you’re still bloody old would you
would you trade it would you trade your
youth for that like if you factor age
out of the economic equation things look
a lot different well of course older
people have more money they have any
sense they’ve been collecting it for
their whole life is that somehow unfair
it’s not unfair unless you want to want
to be poverty-stricken when you’re 70
and you and you don’t want to be poverty
poverty-stricken when you’re 70 so I
just don’t understand what’s happened to
the universities I can’t believe that
you’re not told when you come the first
day look man you are out you’re here on
a heroic mission you’re going to take
your capacity to articulate yourself to
levels that are undreamed-of
you’re gonna come out of here
unstoppable you’re going to be able to
do anything you want it’s like that’s
what you’re here for
instead you’re taught that well you know
the world is a pretty oppressive place
and you’re probably at the bottom of the
victim pile and and and there’s and
there’s there’s virtually nothing you
can do about it except no deconstruct
the patriarchy and it’s so weak beam and
so pathetic that that university should
be embarrassed that that’s what they’re
peddling to students I’m embarrassed by it
how can students make the changes that
they want to make particularly do you
yeah read great books mm-hmm really them
you’ve got this four year period that
has been carved out of your lives by
society they it’s given you an identity
I like a high quality identity and
freedom at the same time and you’re not
gonna get that again in your life you’ve
got a you’ve got a respectable identity
University student and complete freedom
associated with that or as near as
you’re ever going to get and you’ve got
these unbelievable libraries that are
full of the writings of people who are
intelligent and articulate beyond
comprehension and you know and and you
can go there and you can learn all this
and you might think well why should you
learn it well you’ve learned it to get a
job or you learn it to get good grades
or you learn it to get a degree and
that’s all nonsense it’s nonsense
the reason that you come to university
to be educated is because there is
nothing more powerful than someone who
is articulate and you can think and
speak power and I mean power of the best
sort its authority and influence and
respectability and competence and so you
come to university to craft your highest
skill and your highest skill is to be
found in articulated speech and if
you’re if you’re if you’re a master of
formulating your arguments you win
everything and better than that when you
win everything everyone around you wins
– because to transform yourself and to
let’s consider you consider your
transformation to something
approximating the logos it means you
shine a light on the whole world well
there’s nothing more exciting to do than
that there’s nothing better you can
possibly do and to think that you’re
coming to university to be you know
trained to have a job it’s like great
that’s a hell of a lot better than being
unemployed and covered with cheeto dust
while you’re snacking away in front of
your video game in the basement you’re
spectacular you’re you’re all capable of
being world beaters you transform
yourself into something that’s
articulated and sensible and grounded in
history and knowledgeable and wise man
you can do anything you want and
hopefully anything you want for good
because if you have any sense everything
you want to do would be for the good
because there’s nothing more compelling
or meaningful or
or useful in combating the tragedy of
life than to than to struggle with all
your soul on behalf of the good and the
universities have forgotten that it’s
why everyone’s bailing out of the
humanities and they should humanities
are corrupt and they’re corrupt because
they’re not telling students this it’s
so bloody obvious it’s like learn to
think learn to speak
learn to read it makes you a superpower
an individual superpower you have and I
don’t understand why that isn’t just
told to students it’s not that hard to
understand it everyone wants to hear
it’s like really I could do this I could
do that like yeah really you could do
that and the whole society around you is
labored for really thousands of years to
provide every single one of you with
this spectacular opportunity that you
have while you’re undergraduates and
graduate students here yeah they’re just
everyone’s just praying that you would
come here and manifest everything that
you could manifest and that’s what you
should be doing instead of waving
placards and complaining about how
you’re oppressed for God’s sake the only
reason you’re not rich is because you’re
young you know that’s the best really
that’s them if you look at the 1% even
the dreaded 1% you know most of those
people are always why well when you
progress through life if you’re
reasonably successful you trade in your
promising used for your wealthy old age
but you’re still bloody old would you
would you trade it would you trade your
youth for that like if you factor age
out of the economic equation things look
a lot different well of course older
people have more money they have any
sense they’ve been collecting it for
their whole life is that somehow unfair
it’s not unfair unless you want to want
to be poverty-stricken when you’re 70
and you and you don’t want to be poverty
poverty-stricken when you’re 70 so I
just don’t understand what’s happened to
the universities I can’t believe that
you’re not told when you come the first
day look man you are out you’re here on
a heroic mission you’re going to take
your capacity to articulate yourself to
levels that are undreamed-of
you’re gonna come out of here
unstoppable you’re going to be able to
do anything you want it’s like that’s
what you’re here for
instead you’re taught that well you know
the world is a pretty oppressive place
and you’re probably at the bottom of the
victim pile and and and there’s and
there’s there’s virtually nothing you
can do about it except no deconstruct
the patriarchy and it’s so weak beam and
so pathetic that that university should
be embarrassed that that’s what they’re
peddling to students I’m embarrassed by it
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