/lit/ - Literature

>>6442902
What if you have got an unconditional from KCL for physics and Philosophy?
Oxford looks quaint and fancy and everything but is it seriously going to top MOTHERFUCKING LONDON?

I didn't even apply to Oxbridge add I had my mind set on London and applied to LSE UCL KCL Impers and RHUL

When I visited KCL seemed the nicest atmosphere and the lecturers were total bros so I feel I made the right mistake.

But then some girl gets an offer for Norse and Celtic studies from Cambridge and she gets a photo published in the local paper and I feel totally worthless.

It's a really stifling attitude we have in England to heap all of this significance on Oxbridge when the London unis and certain redbricks and Russells (Manchester Bristol Leeds etc.) Are just as influential when it comes to research and input into the scientific community.

>>6406052
I don't think that the proportion of the population that isn't plebian, moronic, badly-read, unartistic, shallow or lowbrow has gotten any bigger. In fact it's probably smaller. It had always been massive.
What mass education and globalisation have done is mostly good: decrease poverty, eradicate illnesses, develop technology that saves lives and increases overall comfort of living/lifespan, more more more more more money more food better food international health diplomacy, safe button centric war mutually assured destruction human rights (?!) Planes trains automobiles Facebook Instagram twitter reddit more art more culture consumer music empty cinema facile tabloid titties for proletariats.

All this this EXTRA everything simultaneously gives plebs the feeling that they have anything worthwhile to say and a platform to catapult their worthless opinions into common intellectual sphere. Society is slowly becoming demographically democratically equalised and (possibly??) At is a) suffering b) hard to find under the layers of fat b) not worth pursuing anymore.

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