/lit/ - Literature

>>22399712
I for one am not taking any loans because I've been part of the workforce long enough not to need it
Still a waste of time and money of course but I don't want to die without a degree

>>22088140
There's this thing about the process of maturation in a person. As a child you are utterly lacking in self-awareness and embrace everything you like with sincerity and enthusiasm. During puberty and adolescence, when the opinions of others and peer pressure begins to become an actual factor, you begin to hide this sincerity for fear of mockery and ostracization (when I became a man I put away childish things etc.) and this attitude of disdain for sincere enthusiasm is often so instilled at this age that people never grow out of it.
In the course of maturation into actual adulthood you should be freeing yourself of the constraints of what your peers think about your hobbies or what you enjoy, but in this age of prolonged adolescence we don't achieve this full maturity and so we have adults who only enjoy things "ironically", who watch youtubers like The Nostalgia Critic shitting on movies because the only way they can enjoy these things is through a veil of insincerety, through detatchment.
In a culture like this it's not really that outlandish that people would simply refuse to acknowledge the possibility that someone else might sincerely enjoy something for real.
Just my two cents.