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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • Yes, well sort of, I got a damn good education at a NE liberal arts school in a STEM degree at a decent well rounded school, but my society turned around and rejected this generation of scientists and thinkers and my degree did little to provide me opportunity, it mostly made me awkwardly overqualified for most jobs I could actually get. Further the science jobs you can get, people treat you like shit because they assume you must be really passionate about doing science so they fuck you over knowing you will stay committed with the hopes of getting one of a small number of actually good jobs.

    I don’t regret actually getting my degree, it wasn’t full of propaganda, people definitely came out of my college smarter and less polarized… what I regret is getting a degree and NOT leaving this piece of shit country when I had a chance.

    The US has spent the years since I graduated curb stomping intellectualism and applying extreme austerity to spaces that encouraged and rewarded critical thought. It makes me feel actively hated for desiring to understand the universe around me, it is a feeling so overbearing it is in the damn air here.

    It isn’t being immersed in the anti-intellectualism that really drains my life force though, it is being immersed in a societally enforced inveitability to anti-intellectualism eventually winning out. We can deal with COVID for a bit, but once the anti-intellectual crowd decides we are done we are done and everybody who gets sick after that can fuck off and die. We can care about climate change for awhile but once we decide we are done we are done and are going to ignore it completely… the list goes on and on…

    My adult life has been a slow march of more and more of this while most people around me utterly ignored why this was so soulcrushing.

    shrugs