Daniel J. Ferrārius wrote: When I first attended EIU I saw in several dorm rooms a poster that was popular at the time. It was a row of expensive sports cars with words below that said, "Justification for higher education." The crassness of that smug materialistic vacuousness instantly angered and depressed me simultaneously. At that time, I was feeling the awe of intellectual expansion for the first time in my life, and that insipid poster hit me with a scrotum tightening epiphany: most people just don't experience or appreciate that kind of high.
Daniel J. Ferrārius wrote:
ReplyDeleteWhen I first attended EIU I saw in several dorm rooms a poster that was popular at the time. It was a row of expensive sports cars with words below that said, "Justification for higher education." The crassness of that smug materialistic vacuousness instantly angered and depressed me simultaneously. At that time, I was feeling the awe of intellectual expansion for the first time in my life, and that insipid poster hit me with a scrotum tightening epiphany: most people just don't experience or appreciate that kind of high.