clickbait? not quite. but yes, the headline definitely appears deceptive to your sensitive brain. it’s rhetorical in the wider sense. i’m sure there’s a greek word for the type. nonetheless, the issue is that it made you mad and got your attention. as per the usual modus operandi of this blog, no one gives a fuck about your feelings.
that said, here’s the truth and the answer to the question.
higher education is not about your job. nor your career. nor your credibility to fill a role. nor your ability to earn gobs of moola. nor your ambition. nor your superiority. this list could go on for days. but ask yourself this. of the points in this paragraph, what is their common thread? if you said ego or id, or anything in the realm of selfishness or self-fulfillment, you’d be correct.
following?
higher education, as the phrase implies, has a higher purpose. no, seriously. it’s not a joke. your society is too stupid to understand that sometimes words are chosen carefully and stick because they have been designed with a fundamental purpose that fits. that is what we call objective reality. you see chaos. you see confusion. don’t worry. it’s not just you. it’s the society you live in. you’ve been excluded from the big kid’s club and the act was intentional. stop crying about it. the system doesn’t care because the system is not a person or anything remotely anthropomorphizable.
higher education is about gathering knowledge. it’s not a selfish act. opposingly, it’s a selfless act. it’s an act of civilization, an act carefully designed over millennia to move humanity into an even higher domain. the higher the domain, the more relevant. i have postulated five domains. the fact is that there are probably more, but since humanity has barely achieved the fourth domain and can barely comprehend the fifth domain, the sixth domain is universally beyond our reach.
allow me to tidy this up for you, you whiny fuck knuckle.
higher education is what is required to enter the third and fourth and fifth domains. higher education is the only way we have figured out to get there as a civilization.
so next time someone asks you if you have utilized your master’s degree for your own betterment, punch them in the genitals and walk away. why? because, simply, the point of higher education is the betterment of the civilization. it does not care about you because you are to it as an ant is to you.