To Nickel-and-Dime the People
You know the cliché. A mind is a terrible thing to waste, or never mind. Well, if that's the case for one mind, what about four billion of them? That's what is happening now and throughout history. Since the advent of academia, or haven't you noticed, only one type of mind has been able to get the information the human mind truly needs to function successfully in today's societies.
There are exceptions. A rare type, for example, people like me, who just said to heck with it, pointed the bough to the wind and tacked out to the open, we knew not where, into the uncharted seas of the self-educated. I have returned after twenty years on the road with an entirely different education. You might say I got my doctorate in the study of the human condition. I'm seeing some of the greatest minds in history out there flipping hamburgers.
The mind that gets through academia is the sub-standard one, that devotes it's time to a cheapened existence and trades it's talent to attain prominence and power and economic well-being in this present sub-standard world rendered thus by the same education system that was supposed to serve it. Now, that wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that enough of those shut the door behind them and make it impossible for most of the others to get the knowledge they need. And therefore the servants have become the incompetent masters.
Access to higher education has become the privilege of an elitist few and that has ruined a perfectly good world and turned it into a virtual, revolving, little blue mediocre Five-and-Ten orbiting an average star in an average universe. Where those who manage to borrow enough for their education had better use it to become accountants or lawyers and such like or they'll never be able to pay it back.
Look at all the time Einstein had to waste working as a postal clerk. But, you may say, how would anyone know what he would have become? The answer is that everyone is a genius in their own right. But they can't really use their gifts while preoccupied trying to hold down employment they can't really excel at being overqualified.
To be continued.
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