Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?

It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.

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    On the other hand, I know a bunch of people who supposedly studied literary criticism at uni, and they’re mostly a bunch of liberal Zionist (including literal genocide apologia) and other such reactionary crap, and so I can only conclude that the main thing they are taught in these classes is propaganda and sophistry, and not how to actually critically read anything.

    Some people get a degree to learn, some people get a degree so they can insist that their interpretation of things is the “correct” one inherently because they are smarter than people who didn’t go to uni.

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      I think most people go to college these days for the higher wages / better jobs that supposedly comes with the degree. Whether you actually learn anything while there is secondary.

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        If money weren’t a concern, I think I’d spend a decade just taking whatever classes interested me.

        But there’s no degree or accreditation I particularly want, so I ain’t about to pay for that shit.

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      When that’s what university is mostly pushing, that’s what people who don’t question learn.