[justshutupandtakeit]

I never implied Russians had come here for educations. They come here to use them.

Nonsense, rhetorical nonsense. We have less conformist thinking than ever. Religious power kept many in the past in conformist modes afraid to question or face the wrath of the preachers, churches, etc. Those in the South who dared to question the right of slaveholders to tyrannize over their fellows were driven out, killed, beaten, etc.

Master's degrees, at the best schools (the only ones I take seriously) are as valid and useful as ever. Are you throwing your's back?

Right, it is such a joke that students from all over the world come here to laugh.

How can you stand to live in such a hideous country failing on every level to hear you tell it?

[AdamSelene235]

How can you stand to live in such a hideous country failing on every level to hear you tell it?

I happen to like it. Its the healthiest patient in the cancer ward.

The only solution to decadence is Renaissance or collapse. I'm gunning for the former.

I seem to recall that you believe the Enlightenment was mistake!

Now THAT's a gloomy outlook.