Max Marmer

I’m actually annoyed learning is romanticized so much. I have an image of my head of a woman  with a fashionable side-bag full of books from university who purrs in a spanish european accent, “I just love learning!” Fine. That’s better not loving learning. But I find many people are content to just continue learning without ever considering actually doing something with what their knowledge. It’s quite selfish, I think.  You clearly have a lot of resources at your disposal and you’re just going study for years justifying your intellectual masturbation because society upholds this pursuit with a kind of aristocratic prestige. There are so many big problems with pouring your heart into. Devoting years to learning is fine, but do it with a purpose of spreading your insights and improving your surroundings.

Anyway, that’s not most people. But there are certainly a lot of people who fit that mold. And when I sense that, my stomach rolls over and pretends to play dead for about 3 minutes.