Unsure now if university
prepares any individual for life out there in the real world. It definitely
nurtures the soul though, some take away from it being part of an orchestra, a
student protest, a club night; and I bet most of the kids from UCL have done
one of the above. They are The Cool
students - caring about not caring but actually really deeply caring about image
and ideas. And what’s wrong with that? It might not lead directly to money but
it’ll help them engineer a false identity, one they can use as their public
face in a world that’s commandeered by Internet. I stood there in the middle and
watched them gather and disperse. I had flyers in my pockets to hand out (‘trying
to hit the student demographic yeah, they like free things’) negating me as a
threat and I was surprised by what I saw. Beautiful creatures in the rapture of
youth making tiny decisions which won’t affect the outcome of anything (but
they think it will and that’s what matters). Is it naivety, is it young priority,
or is it actually that they’ve been taught to believe the world takes them
seriously. They don’t. Or at least I don’t think it does. Jealous but happy for
them, I laugh like I’d imagine a dog laughs when he’s been unclipped from his
collar and scamper off to find some food.
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