Do You Really Have to Go to College?
13th March 2013
You will have noticed — I certainly have — of the spate of vaporing by Voices of the Crust concerning whether the college degree that we’ve all been carefully conditioned (even in government schools) to consider a necessity if one is to avoid spending the rest of one’s life in a homeless shelter grasping a bottle of Two Buck Chuck is really all that vital after all. [wring hands] There aren’t any jobs for all these poor college graaduates! [wring hands] The Youth of America is crushed under debt! [wring hands] Most of these people don’t belong in college anyway! [wring hands] Where will we get our plumbers/electricians/policemen/firemen/truck drivers if everybody goes to college? (After all, not even the most delusional high school guidance counselor believes that college is necessary for such jobs.)
Bleeding-heart liberals awash with love for the oppressed masses? Perhaps.
Perhaps not. Let me spin you a different scenario. The Upper Crust, appalled at the notion of the offspring of the Lower Orders competing with their sterling scions for the few jobs that actually require a college education, want to put a stop to it — same as they want to put a stop to petit bourgeois crypto-proles competing with them for seats in restaurants, spaces in business class, and slips at the marina. After all, If Everybody’s Somebody, Then No One’s Anybody.
Just a thought.