March 9, 2024

“With student evaluations now determining the career path of young professors, and young professors determining the career opportunities of young students, professors and students have adopted a nonaggression pact: Professors give entertaining and easy courses in exchange for good evaluations. This way, professors get tenure so that they can get back to publishing papers and writing grant proposals to bring in grant money.”

1:15 AM

“For some, status-driven experiences are sought out. Rather than refining experiences, like learning to identify bird songs during a walk in the park, new and more exorbitant experiences are sought out, and travel agencies are happy to offer them up”

1:39 AM

“When you identify with an object, you're defined by the object, then controlled by it, and ultimately owned by it”

1:42 AM

“Thanks to the focus on technology, many skills have been forgotten--eggs can't be boiled without egg boilers, bread can't be toasted without a toaster, and the counter can't be cleaned without dye-colored chemical products”

1:51 AM