Growing Up/Giving In

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High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and vitality, with vim, vigor, and brewing lust — these kids are working at old age homes, cramming for tests, popping Adderall just to make the literal and proverbial grade. And for what? So they can go to a school that puts them in debt for the rest of their lives. School has become a great vehicle of capitalism: it quashes the revolution implicit in adolescence while simultaneously fomenting perpetual indebtedness.

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Wow. I mean, I knew all of this stuff separately, but putting it together and looking at it like that… wow.

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cognitivedissonance: marcinhaunts: bunnywith: solarsaturation: ronpaulproblems: “Old Economy Steve” mad as hell My dad once told me that sometimes when he’d lose a job he’d have another one before he went home and I just… WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THAT STORY. THAT IS NOT RELEVANT TO MY JOB HUNT. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A JOB FOR OVER A YEAR, DON’T TELL ME ABOUT HOW JOB HUNTING USED TO BE. FUCK. my father This is relevant to my life.

cognitivedissonance:

marcinhaunts:

bunnywith:

solarsaturation:

ronpaulproblems:

“Old Economy Steve”

mad as hell

My dad once told me that sometimes when he’d lose a job he’d have another one before he went home and I just…

WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THAT STORY. THAT IS NOT RELEVANT TO MY JOB HUNT. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A JOB FOR OVER A YEAR, DON’T TELL ME ABOUT HOW JOB HUNTING USED TO BE.

FUCK.

my father

This is relevant to my life.