Shit book, bad prose, boring plot into le dystopian garbage pile it goes. Sage.

Students do this shit because college is such a fucking joke nowadays, it's purely focused on idiotic performance metrics that cannot truly capture excellence.

When you create a game that tells its players "get your score as high as possible!", you can't be mad at players for doing that. And that is what college has become, a center for 'job training', getting your stupid piece of paper then going into the labor force to become a drone with your great liberal education.

it's really sad, if you give even a little bit of a fuck in undergrad you are better than 99% of people there. I had professors offer me TA positions out of the blue just for actually talking about things that weren't regurgitated from the class readings.

>>7709800
Read "Industrial Society and Its Future" if you want something better on a similar topic.

>>7709800
It's not THE novel about intellectual decay. Someone more relevant than Bradbury can achieve such a thing.

>>7709828
I'm not just the idea of comparing high school to college, I don't care that you learn seemingly useless information, the more the better, Im asking as to why people do this and what we should do about it

>>7709842
Who is it by?

>>7709824
I know its a fucking stupid plot but the author made some pretty good predictions of how people are today and makes some good points

>>7709859
Theodore J. Kaczynski

>>7709828
I reread what you commented and I take back my comment, except for the question of how to change this fucked up system

>>7709876
He didn't make any predictions. The cycle of educational decay has been noted in Greek, Chinese, and Arab civilization. Bradbury didn't do anything special with his spin on it.

>>7709918
I agree, but still, the ideas of how modern people think and do things currently is my most important topic that i want to discuss