/lit/ - Literature

>>22028752
>>>22028717
Idk, OP did a pretty good job there...kinda brought me to tears here a little, so much meaning...

>>19930271
>tfw you'll never be a frog and understand the secret

>>19873598
>You fathers and you mothers
>Be good to one another
>Please try to raise your children right
>Don't let the darkness take 'em
>Don't let them feel forsaken
>Just lead them safely to the light

>>18734594
i like the part where it go "good morning ooooeeeeoooeeeeoowoooowooo"

>>18451339
>>18452824
>>18452828
>>18452839

You know, this guy might sound bold but after getting my BA in philosophy out of love of exact reasoning and MSc in political science with intent of both studying something interesting that might land me a data/RStudio-related job I feel this guy. I love humanities and social science will all my heart but our society and educational system are so vastly disorganized and distorted from its Platonic ideal that at the end of the day the only actually realized goal of education from a majority of educational systems is economic signalling, not personal fulfillment and sharpening of your mind. Don't get me wrong, some memories and discussions from my BA and MSc studies are some of the best I had, but, it simply makes no sense to willingly take a high-risk gamble of taking a degree that doesn't hold a high likelihood of granting you a well-paying job in an extremely competitive economic environment - your chances of becoming tenure-track academic in philosophy or a bureaucrat for European Commission are just so much fainter than a junior software developer at mid-size fintech company. Were I sixteen again, I would immediately find a summer job so I could afford to treat my ADHD before after my studies, study up so i could be accepted to an exact "hard skill" discipline like computer science in a prestigious university and treat it as a signalling tool while reading the living shit out of Wittgenstein, public choice theorists and like in my spare time. At the end of the day a degree is just a paper, and a truly educated, erudite man will refuse to specialize in one single domain of knowledge. Granted that, it simply makes more sense to be a well-paid erudite person with a hard skill degree than to be merely an erudite person with a soft/human science degree.

>>16920199
>lovinggf4