Doing a bit about it is falling for the bait btw

When I was a kid the family two doors down from us specifically moved to Columbus because the dad got a job at Lucent. That job lasted about a year and a half before it went belly up; they moved not long after. Last good neighbors we had there, sadly.

Permanent "I was supposed to pick my mother up from the airport 17 hours ago" face

This would be an embarrassing game for a middle school special teams unit

Laws are for the Poors, we all know that

He's right, but there's understandably a lot of wariness surrounding the people most likely to promote it. *Their* kids aren't going to trade school.

Bingo. You're there because you're told you have to be. Education never once enters into it.

I think some of it is kind of a hyper-concentrated nihilism that comes from a society that has long glorified that. None of this matters, just go through the motions and get the paper. Why care when it's imminently clear that nobody with a title higher than adjunct professor does, either?

University presidents get their jobs by kissing ass and keeping rich powerful people happy. Capitulation is by design.