“You deserve better. You’re a victim. Nothing is your fault.”
It’s what re-education camps do. They make you unhappy. Here in the US, sadistic parents pay to remand their children to these camps. It’s a cultural flaw, but different strokes . .
I enjoyed my time in college. I started double majors in physics and math; but, found my true love with the physics department’s IBM 1130. Finished up with a CS degree, physics & math minors. A had friends that enjoyed spelunking and other activities. Joined Army ROTC. Those years were magnificent.
We had an underground tunnel connecting male and female dorms. At the meeting point sat an elderly lady wearing an eyeshade. When someone of one sex tried to make it to the other, they would hide out of eyesight and then make a fast dash to the other side before she could stand up. Not me. I was a firm adherent of the 3 feet on the ground rule.
No faith in the good and gracious God of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Marxism (or American Neo-marxism) is by definition an ideology of conflict and victimhood.
“existence of a depressing ennui”
The left obsesses about how bad things are. Conservatives feel grateful for how good things are. Who would you rather hand out with?
Well spending 150-200k for a worthless product(degree) is pretty fn depressing!💯🤬🤬🤬
Most see college as a social experience not an academic one.
The article Gender Ideology Run Amok states that since 2012 young girls have been especially vulnerable to an onslaught from social media resulting in a 4000% increase in gender dysphoria. Schools often encourage this behavior, while at the same time contending against anorexia and bulimia which have the same source. If this trend was the province of true science, the first question to be researched would be to discover why.
In England and Wales, the number of teenagers seeking treatment at the Gender Identity Development Service (gids), the main clinic treating dysphoria, has risen 17-fold since 2011-12
I read an article in National Review many years ago (like 50 years ago) about the effect of college on young people.
One of the students interviewed was a female at one of the elite women’s colleges. She said that one of her professors “wanted me to get rid of myself.” I remember that phrase clearly.
I don’t think it was necessarily an invitation to suicide. I think the expression comes from the teachings of Jung and Kierkegaard, which were fashionable in academia in the late 60s and through the 70s.
I attended university after my military service, I was( and am still) happily married, and was raising a daughter,
so it was interesting to see what BS the instructors would dump on the kids.
I freely challenged anything that I thought was outside normal class content. I always won.
Military teaches you to be responsible to yourself, others and how to do it with proper respect for authority.
Most my classmates would be jaw dropping confused upon occasion when I challenged the instructor when they strayed off subject.
It is my belief that in non STEM degrees students should have a few years of real life experience before pursuing a
BA deree in basket weaving, teaching, or psychology.
It’s just like the Media. The rank and file university workers, be they faculty or staff, are so ALL IN on ideology, that they don’t care about the long term sustainability of their campus. In fact, most of them would rather see their campus shut down than moderate their ideology. Because its not about the students, it’s about The Revolution.
My college years were very miserable although for likely proprietary reasons. I had a debilitating medical issue that took doctors 2.5 years to diagnose when I was in college plus it was my first time in life where I experienced putting up a herculean effort and doing poorly inspite of the effort. Really left me as a dried up husk to be honest.
The know-nothing “Professors”.
College pretty much destroyed my life.
I came out of college completely incompetent. Just about everything I learned—I had to unlearn.
Took me decades.
Does Leftism make people happy, or does unhappiness make people Leftist? Perhaps it’s a vicious spiral.
Because humans are designed by evolution to want to find mates, form family units, and start having children when they’re 18 to 24 years old, but college is four-plus years of indoctrination telling them no, it’s stupid and wrong for them to want to do that. The resulting cognitive dissonance causes profound depression and unhappiness.
liberal women are unhappy?
shocking!
you mean spreading their legs for anyone and everyone isn’t making them happy? murdering their own babies that result isn’t making them happy? Denying God and having to live with the knowledge they are going to die and rot without hope of an afterlife for themselves and everyone they ever cared about isn’t making them happy? Believing the man made global warming lie and suffering from TDS isn’t making them happy?
shocking.
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not.
"Why Do Colleges Make People Unhappy?"
Federal government requirements for colleges to indoctrinate students with repugnant political agendas (eg. vote Biden) in exchange for receiving unconstitutional taxpayer dollars facilitated by corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification (popular voting for federal senators) Congress's abuse of its16th Amendment powers (direct taxes).