#in what i just said. if tumblr thinks i'm smart then hopefully my professor will think so too in 9 days when i have my final exam

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Genuinely feeling inspired by Wolf, E. (1982) "Europe and the People Without History" ch. III F.C.E., México 2005, (pp 97-130)

Trying to use my amphibia obsession to help me studying by applying concepts from my textbooks to worldbuinding analysis

[geekns]

Turns out being poorly informed does not mean you were forced to do something.

Also, college debt is...kind of a big deal. It's been a household word for, what, the past decade? At least?

Oh, my sweet Summer Child. I was meant to graduate from high school in 2000. I became deeply depressed trying to keep up my grades because in every single class I had, teachers expected me to lie in order to pass tests! I had to give the answers they required even when I knew them to be 100% wrong!

The internet was brand new. Poorly informed? There was nowhere for me to Google or even Yahoo info about student loans. My entire life, adults told me that I was expected to go to college. That I had to go to college in order to be successful. That I had to go to college to be happy. And, as a naive, abused, suicidal child, I was deeply unhappy and desperate for escape.

But when I got my GED, I was flat-out told that my abusive parents made too much money for me to get any financial aid despite my 4.0+ out of 4.0 GPA (i was in weighted classes and my GPA was perfect). Even though I had been supporting myself for over a year and lived in a completely different state than they did.

I'm white. My parents were middle class with seven kids and two mortgages. And the financial aid people said my only option for financial aid was to have a baby outside of wedlock.

So, when all authority figures tell you that this is the only option your entire life, the normal decision, the smart decision, and you're still struggling between finding your own way and believing the lies that were spoon-fed to you your entire life, what do you think I chose?

I didn't even know what a trade was. I was too fat to enlist (all 5'5" lifeguard/jock of me). There were no options. I took out a loan.

Now I am much older and hopefully a little wiser, and I freely admit that I made a stupid choice, but I have to forgive myself for this choice because i had absolutely no way of knowing that it was the wrong one to make. EVERYONE HAD TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS NO CHOICE, no other options. Incidentally, I worked full time most of my college career and tried to take out the least amount of money possible to survive. And every step of the way, every class, your professors expected you to do the same thing they had: get a Masters or Doctorate. Keep going into more debt.

I didn't know that all my debt is held by the US government and that student loans are their main source of income until a week ago.

I didn't know that the "#1 most useful major in the USA" would suddenly become the major that was tantamount to a General Education diploma that no one wanted to hire you for achieving.

I didn't know that over 90% of college seniors in my graduating class were going to be forced to move back in with their parents.

I didn't know that Obama was going to become president and deliberately tank the economy in my state and most of the US.

I didn't know that I was going to be forced to work 3-4 part-time jobs simultaneously just to make ends me (and would still not be able to support myself).

I didn't know that it was going to be impossible to find a full-time job, that no one was hiring college graduates anywhere locally, that everywhere I applied I would be told that I was overqualified if I even heard back at all.

I didn't know that I would have to move to a foreign country to find a job using my degree.

Now you take all of this info and think about it. How would you know any of this beforehand? How would you know with no internet access? How would you know without FB, Twitter, or Tumblr? When your only news source was from the mainstream media that tells you what they want you to know and how to think the way they want you to think? How would you have been smart enough to shake off the system that you were born into, one that was intended to profit the government and turn children into brainwashed little workers and that has, over time, perfected this brainwashing more and more.

Kids today don't learn how to read, write, or do math. They learn CRT and and Trans rights. They don't have home economics, or shop class, or accounting, or typing, or music. They have been sitting in front of a screen or in a classroom with a mask on. They don't even know how to be a normal human being anymore. It's like TPTB are trying to make them all autistic on purpose.

Even in Japan they knew that you cannot learn from someone wearing a mask. The children can't read the teacher's lips, expressions, etc. They become isolated and never learn proper socialization even when they are in the classroom.

So by doing this, in the name of "safety"--for a disease with better than a 99.999% survivability, which mostly affects the elderly with pre-existing conditions and rarely affects children--TPTB have thoroughly destroyed the educations of all American children over the past few years. It's all over TikTok, teachers talking about how virtually all students are now special needs.

This has devastated the future of our country if not the world. Those of us who are internet savvy can indeed now find information about this issue, but you cannot force a human to think any more than you can force a horse to drink. I grew up in an echo chamber and I fell for the lie. You seem to have been fortunate to grow up in a different time and place. But you seem to think that I had a choice when I was uninformed and the gatekeepers still held all of the cards.

I'm not even going to go into birth certificates or the banks or how screwed up the judicial system is. You're just going to continue to call me hyperbolic, I'm sure. But let me boil it all down to one little TL;DR for you so you can maybe under an iota of what I have gone through in my life.

When the people in power control the information, the education system, the health system, the food, and the government, choice becomes an illusion.

You're right, I wasn't merely forced. I was coerced.