UK - Council and European Election

[Beanz]

Miles you are absolutely impossible to reason with. If you think anthropology and sociology are meaningless drivel, then what is the point of talking to you ? You would not have linguistics and your idol Chomsky without Anthropology and yet what's good for the Goose is apparently no good for the Gander. I get it you think England. it's students, education and general population are stupid and it is only you who has ever achieved anything despite being born here and then running off to Korea to look down your nose at everybody back home. God you are an insufferable snob.

[Gandalf]

Miles you are absolutely impossible to reason with. If you think anthropology and sociology are meaningless drivel, then what is the point of talking to you ? You would not have linguistics and your idol Chomsky without Anthropology and yet what's good for the Goose is apparently no good for the Gander. I get it you think England. it's students, education and general population are stupid and it is only you who has ever achieved anything despite being born here and then running off to Korea to look down your nose at everybody back home. God you are an insufferable snob.

They are useless if the person is never going to get a job using those skills. I've seen it so often, in courses like these people end up doing things like working in retail or various things not connected to sociology. My friend Marc for instance studied sociology up until MA level and ended up working for the council. Years of being bored later, he is going to study economics. I hope he has a plan, second time out they usually do. I did. Now nursing students on the other hand, always end up getting a job as a nurse.

I am saying that people often choose things simply because they enjoy the subject, but they have no connection to say being a politician. I studied Politics, but unless you are in the old Eton gang you won't have a chance, and furthermore, if you are that bit radical, you will be weeded out regardless. I liked politics and history, but it was useless. Most realise it too late after being told in sixth form 'You must go to University to do well!. Then a decade later and average debts of 10's of thousands of pounds.......the system is not only increasingly useless, but it is abusive and rotten.

[Gandalf]

I think they are useful course for knowledge, but in terms of jobs in modern Britain, you will struggle. I guess that's what I was getting at.

[Gandalf]

Miles you are absolutely impossible to reason with. If you think anthropology and sociology are meaningless drivel, then what is the point of talking to you ? You would not have linguistics and your idol Chomsky without Anthropology and yet what's good for the Goose is apparently no good for the Gander. I get it you think England. it's students, education and general population are stupid and it is only you who has ever achieved anything despite being born here and then running off to Korea to look down your nose at everybody back home. God you are an insufferable snob.

I responded to the first part only. I don't look down on the smart English people and there are many of them, but I do look down on the economic and social dehumanisation taking place. Culturally there is something wrong with the UK in that children of poor families would rather become single parents than try and better themselves. Yet if you are smart and try to better yourself you find a mountain of debt. If you are irresponsible and breed as a kid, you get handouts. From top to bottom there are massive abuses of the system and it's intolerable. I don't think I have achieved very much in life beyond a modicum of self sufficiency, but surely self sufficiency should be the ultimate objective of any decent system. I don't discriminate, banks should be self sufficient only, as should randy kids, as should rancid old Monarchies.

I don't claim to have done anything in life except to finally study in an area that fits, and to live a very cautious life. My sister in law came over last week and loved our TV, but looked in horror at the old sofa full of holes. People can drive old cars, sit on old sofas, avoid going out to a silly bar and spending the night drinking overpriced crappy drinks. On the whole they don't though. They think Daddy government is always going to be there. But big Daddy government is broker than all of them. All I say is that there are serious cultural problems in the UK and they refuse to look the problems in the eye. All I do is make some comparisons and say hey, it doesn't suck here, you know yourself your system has gone wrong.

Stop trying to make it into me hating your system, which is a country I will always be connected to, when I see it as other systems having ways to improve our country. Nationalisation, stop supporting teenage mums with free housing, banking reform, protect domestic workers and give them hope in their own country and then ask for immigrants. Reform the University system so students aren't overdoing courses with limited job opportunities. I am offering suggestions to improve a broken country. I don't want it broke.