Wood drastically... Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth...

To my critics: harsh though it may be, the reality I am speaking about is not one of "pretension," but it is indeed one of cruelty. Above all it is one of scarcity. There are simply too many average, middling fuckos in this industry and not enough jobs for them to fill. Unless you are the best and the brightest, and I mean have a burning, seething passion to write about problems very few people care about, then you are wasting your fucking time and making it harder for the rest of us.

>I did philosophy and literature. Now I have a blue color job
Why assume that's representative? Plenty of people study the humanities and get well-paid jobs. Maybe you just spelt 'collar' wrong in all your job applications.

Of course you can OP, the question is for what purpose.

The whole point of a university, as narrow an ivory tower as it is, is that the whole point of being there is to study in order to understand a specific topic as much as possible.

Are you sure you could even bother learning a topic as deeply as a university professor for example, without actually being a university professor?

Do you like apples?

Not in every country do you rack up debt like in the US

How do you like them apples*

Anybody else here a legitimate, verifiable, Good Will Hunting-esque genius?

On the one hand it's a blessing, but on the other it's an almost unbearable curse. All my life I've aced every test I've ever set. I've failed at practically nothing. Even in sports I excelled while other "academic" kids refused to even take part. I've just completed my BA in English Lit at the age of 19 and I'm about to start on my MA (fully-funded scholarship), but I don't know how long I can continue being a genius before I eventually burn out or break down. My professors all tell me that I stand out and that's it's obvious that I'm destined for great things. Heck, one of them has said outright that he wishes he had possessed my intelligence and work-rate when he was my age. Whether it's math or science or literature I just excel in everything I do without even considering that there was an option that I could not. Just last semester I solved a theorem that people had been working on for the past two decades (I won't say which one because my name is now indelibly linked with said theorem) and that was a for a class I wasn't even supposed to have attended. Psychiatrists have said that people in my very small demographic of highly intellectual individuals usually suffer from aspergers or some related disorder which deprives them of a healthy social life, but I have surprised each one in turn when I inform them that in fact I am an incredibly sociable and well-liked individual (despite also being a mysterious hermit-like recluse) and that every girl I have either dated or simply penetrated a bunch of times has described me as the kind of guy they could really see themselves with long-term.

Are there any novels about this sort of thing?

Because i got her number!

The problem is that in the west the education system has begun to revolve around getting "minorities" out the door in bulk, so long as your dumb ass reads at least half of the course work you're gonna pass any test with ease. Simply because those tests are designed for people in single parent homes with a genetic predisposition towards stupidity.

>Are there any novels about this sort of thing?
No, mostly because that's a boring as shit mary sue premise that mary sue fans can't even get off from because you're not a skilled martial artist as well.

Fucking kill yourself

I kind of know what you mean.

I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

You're a snide and pretentious cunt.

>I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you never went to college, and you resent education, you resent social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ, you resent thousand-dollar bills, you resent Christmas, by God, you resent happiness, you resent happiness itself, because none of that's real. What is real, then? Nothing's real to you that isn't part of your own past, real life, a swamp of failures, of social, sexual, financial, personal...spiritual failure. Real life. You poor bastard. You don't know what real life is, you've never been near it. All you have is a thousand intellectualized ideas about life. But life? Have you ever measured yourself against anything but your own lousy past? Have you ever faced anything outside yourself? Life! You poor bastard.

Is this the best quote from the movie?

>the only way to have value is if you're making money

Hello, porky.

Gaddis is a fucking sperg.

>I don't see the justification for an Arts degree anymore.
>STEM or the trades: those are the economically feasible options now.
The problem is that the Arts has given up actually teaching people worthwhile skills, thinking, and techniques.

It long ago ceded/abandoned economically viable persuasion and writing to specialists in marketing/communications/psychology and similar.

Your Englishes have become obsessed with hermeneutic rabbit holes (and not particularly interested in poetics), and it's hard to view the trends in hermeneutics as anything except a function of power, belief systems, and fashions.

The irony about the lopsided "STEM vs. humanities" ""conflict"" is that STEM professionals generally have horrible written and verbal communication skills. Yet those skills are essential to have in any organisation, anyone can develop them, and they can make a massive difference getting jobs and promotions.

>Are there any novels about this sort of thing?
are you really asking Veeky Forums a book about your imaginary self?

That guy had a pretty Veeky Forums haircut. Also that movie was
cringe' as the children say

Black with no sugar