This quarter is the closest I’ve ever come to burning out. Not from overwork, or from senioritis and being done with school, but from the content of the courses. Actually, no, that’s not true. I could handle it if it was just the courses, but it’s coming in from every direction these days. When I enrolled in these classes, I didn’t realize I was signing up for a great class on Shakespeare and two ten-week invective filled diatribes on why America is horrible.

I’m sorry, you want to see why America, and California’s education system is failing? Look in a mirror. You are the problem, Various Professors* and every one else who shovels the same inane academic nothingness down our throats. Well, congratulations. You’ve almost done something I though was impossible. Convince me to vote Republican in 2010. I was seriously considering reregistering on their ticket the other night, when I realized something. YOU SOUND LIKE THEY DO. You mirror the same exact anti-intellectual anti progress self-centrist apologetic drivel that we have forced down our throats again and again by Fox News. You are Academics, not intellectuals, and you are doing your best to indoctrinate my generation and to force us to spew the same meaningless blather you do. You’ve made sure we’ve stopped learning from history in a way that lets us move forward, and instead mired us in the past almost irredeemably. Your jingoist crap means NOTHING in the bigger picture, it’s an obsession over details that were important at their time, and are meaningless now except through your massive redefinition of importance. You raise issues again and again and again, but rather than dealing with them and letting them heal, you’re like the masochistic idiot who just keeps reopening old wounds to let them bleed and bleed and bleed until they’re so far beyond the point where they can heal it’s practically a joke.

You are the finest examples of Ivory Tower Academia I have ever seen, except rather than ivory your towers are made of shit. And you wallow in it. You’ve thrown open the doors, doing your goddamn level best to kill off everything that made the tower special, hollowed it out, and covered it with crap.

Fuck you, fuck your views. Fuck everything you stand for. You’ve become what you hate. Racist, self centered, western idealistic assholes. You’re so determined to prove how you’re better than people were in the past you haven’t even realized that you’re making the same damn mistake that you spend your lives bitching about.

Congratulations. I’m done. You’ve burnt out every last strand of caring that I have. Die alone.


*It should be noted that exactly which professors fill that role will vary lecture to lecture. This is, after all, a rant, not a well reasoned piece. If you think it applies to you and it feels accurate, it probably isnt. If you don't think it applies to you, then it probably does and you should consider trying to understand what might provoke someone to rant about you. It could be anything, from a personality conflict to a dislike of lecture material to my objecting to your invective filled anti-american rant that so far has concluded with the idea that not only is life sacred, doing any sort of life-saving-but-unrequest-medical-prodecure is tantamount to rape, even when it's just a blood transfusion to save you and your unborn childs life, because it some how violates your religious tenets more than dying would. ... Also note, if it's the latter, I probably think you're a moron who should be on MSNBC or Fox News influencing the masses, instead of in a classroom influencing the tiny segment of American Society who actually is trying to better themselves. Then again, I'm referring to an introductory level class, so it's not like anyone is paying attention to what you say.