Murphy's Chosen One

Wouldn't the world be a much better place to live if it was completely devoid of academia?
For how cavalier the thought sounds, I bet a gadzillion people around the world regard such a system as their idea of Utopia.
Yes, not having to study is downright idyllic. Isn't it so painfully obvious?

If we are the system ourselves and the system is functioning right against the favoured idea, wouldn't that make us sad hypocrites?

I understand this debate's been made umpteen times, but it amazes me that nothing's been done about it.

Of late, the whole academic relapse has transcended most of my other day-to-day activites and left me feeling plain insufficient. Getting caught copying didn't quite help the cause either.
It was supposed to be an open-book inter-anal dammit, who suddenly changed the rules??
Comfort then puts such obstacles as power failure at home and then a pub with sad beer and blaring techno music.
I finally went to a park almost out of town and talked it out a bit with Zach, my imaginary friend.
Am I demented or is this just a symptom of total disconnect and alienation?

Neat discussion with Zach though...helped clear stuff up.

I vote for large-scale ambush of hypogeeks, wonks and other gaandus.
We can all go take periodic tests on quantitative analysis, lateral thinking, read lots of Nietzche, Swami Vivekananda, the Gita and other holy books to keep our human values intact and if required, take quizzes on music every now and then.
Plain indolence prevents me from putting up a whole list of "better things to do than study".

Ok, so we might probably remain a bit primitive in cognizance and stuff...but we could so do with a break from all the 'superadvanced post-civilization technology' really!

If all this made sense, join me as I stare into the setting sun at the beach, beer in hand and shirtless. I might make catchy aphorisms like "Life sucks" every now and then.

If it didn't make sense however, attribute it to one of life's phases where the speech is exactly as coherent as the consciousness is not.