On Value-Namely, The Distance Between Product, Price and Actual Value, I-Universities
by Douglas Cate on Monday, January 3, 2011 at 5:50pm
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"On Value-namely, The Distance Between Various Products and Services, The Natural, Actual Net Worth and Value and Their Listed Prices (Their MSRP, for instance), I-Universities...Pro? Or Outrageous Con?
In talking about &; treating of the great, vast, prairielike expanse that separates the value and the price of goods, products and services, I have only one, highly cogent but inflammatory, trenchant thing to say: It is distant; it is unfair; it is unequal-it is outrageous and wallet and bankbook-shrivelling. It is all these things, and more but in only one place, one sacred, oft-debauching realm (whose own inequalities and strangenesses are too numerous to list here or anywhere) is it worse and more awful, unfair and indignantly, wrathfully outrageous than that imposed by all the others on the consumer-one and ONLY one (other than of course the current myriad of unfair, too-high taxes at all levels: local, state, federal): The American University.
Has anyone ever once thought how much-how very, VERY much-monies, revenue and capital the average American university-a self-righteous, greedy, grasping, self-involved, uncharitable thing-has at it's enormous disposal?
The average university education IN TOTO costs $ 4,000.00 (and that number is generally a very conservative under-estimate)...and, is it REALLY worth that?
No; I don't care what benefits it does or doesn't provide to it's recipient, it is not-EVER-worth that-not when you consider that the average salary is far less than that and that general expenses and cost of living is far HIGHER than that.
Now, I say this with all the indignation I can muster: I say this as a betrayed, angered and ultimately GOUGED consumer, which is what the postwar situation has forced us all lo these sixty or seventy years to become-but THAT is quite another matter, one into which I will not be going here or perhaps anywhere else, either. Certainly not now, at any rate.
In the end, given it's overestimation and immense disparity in value and cost, it is really worth it to go to college-to financially support a system that is in effect an unfair, miniature government in and of itself?
Who actually desires to lend their hardearned lifelong income to these wicked, wretched enclaves that presume to dictate the fiats, mores, norms and unfocused, foolish trends we all must follow-and abide by?
These are the places whose mammoth mammon is so great, it is incalcuable and incomputably, illimitably vast-as it their attendant, presumed greediness and wickedness. A wickedness that stems only from greed; but nonetheless this is still a form of nefariousness.
While the poor get ever poorer basing their burgeoning indigence on the futile hope; the GAMBLE, really; that some monetary, lucrative good: a way out of their hardship: will come of this; and the rich, in this sorry case the perfervid and monetarily gravid universities who rob us all blind, get richer.
I therefore posit that universities are really nothing more than a vast, elaborate, apparently gentlemanly con-and unnecessary.
Almost everything you can learn there, you can learn on your own-& at a huge fraction of the life and savings account-bleeding costs.
A self-taught person is always going to be a better, richer person-if only for the great, immense savings in not going to college that they net-than that poor, sorry, gulible fool who supports collegiate fascism...and (contracts) meningitis.
I really hate to say these things, but the truth is the truth and I make this protest for many reasons other than simple, honest reportage and expose-chiefest among them, my own aversion to returning to school (a sad, horrible fact that, for better or worse, whether to my infinite joy or eternal, suicidal malaise and ennui or not, that may have to face up to-and "bite the bullet" as it were & go back...sort of) unless said school was the Frisbee of my youth, a school which ironically, I seldom appreciated and adored at the time that I actually went there-sadly, I abhorred it more than I ever adored it, then. And now this work is done.
An Interesting, Imperative Remark or Memo
by Douglas Cate on Monday, January 3, 2011 at 6:02pm
You know, it is interesting-
I worte at least one very short, eminently readable note about everybody's favorite subject; that they would all KILL to read about (if they only COULD read) and....not one single word of comment did I ever receive-not even a paltry "like" on all the little articles, fragments, essays and editorials of mine.
Now, this is very odd........after all, didn't I appeal therein to the lowest common denominator? But then...wait! What was I even thinking? Aren't all of them (the LCD's) illiterates?
(Note: By the way, seeing as how the word "illiterates" is such a hard one-so hard to read, so hard to spell....even harder for the uneducated to say-I might as well go ahead & define it for you all: It means someone who can't-or in this case, WON'T read a book or anything printed and written. This, then, is a genuine cause for celebration among all writers, like myself. After all, when should art and artistry EVER be roundly, soundly, presently appreciated? They are such trifles.)
A Few Additional Adjectives To Append to The FMS/KRC Situation
by Douglas Cate on Monday, January 3, 2011 at 5:18pm
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"Some Additional Thoughts &; Notes On The Proposed Structural Hopefully Only Internal Changes to Frisbee Middle/Elementary School (Now Called by the odious "Frisbee Common") {That in fact have triggered a number of responses from me, some with which this readership is already heartily familiar, one of which newer responses is to write a story of me purchasing and restoring the place to it's former glory, grandeur and scholastic layout that I enjoyed as an adolescent, in which way, no matter what, it should be forever preserved-and, I've also had two dreams recently about the possibly damnable and irrevocable fate of one of my troika of Kittery Alma Mater's}"
It is, and in all honesty I could probably rant and rave &; rage about this for dozens of pages but here I will attempt some sort of economy with words, some laconicism that may prove helpful, instructive and useful-
It is-these proposed changes-worthless, extravagant, silly, unnecessary, overblown and useless. The whole melange, the mise-en-scene is like placing a royal red, silken carpet in a filthy bathroom...and thus, befouling & soiling it.
(Note: I both know more and a whole LOT more that I could say about this. But for now, that is enough.)
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