>>The current academic environment is just that, a terrible one.<<
Painfully true.
>> It's more insulting when you think of how what few winners there are include some of the worst people in existence.<<
No surprise. Intense competition means the survivors tend to be A) people with strong advantages at the start (a penis, fair skin, etc.) and B) the ones willing to do whatever it takes to win, no matter how heinous. You get what you reward. What they reward is often abuse. Well, of course people take that home, it's the same reason cops and soldiers have sky-high rates of domestic violence.
>>Thanks for reminding me, I gotta keep looking for her sake.<<
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Painfully true.
>> It's more insulting when you think of how what few winners there are include some of the worst people in existence.<<
No surprise. Intense competition means the survivors tend to be A) people with strong advantages at the start (a penis, fair skin, etc.) and B) the ones willing to do whatever it takes to win, no matter how heinous. You get what you reward. What they reward is often abuse. Well, of course people take that home, it's the same reason cops and soldiers have sky-high rates of domestic violence.
>>Thanks for reminding me, I gotta keep looking for her sake.<<
Good luck with that.