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Fair points. I am not saying "just don't go". I am just saying give it some thought. There is such a bias towards thinking that university is right thing for anyone that wants to get on in the world, but that is just not true. The reality is more nuanced. What I have written is intended as an antidote to the projection that most people suffer from.

If someone you know is thinking about going to university, tell them to pause and think carefully. Universities today aren’t just places of learning. They’ve become environments where one way of thinking dominates. Certain subjects are especially heavy with ideology, and those who question it often feel isolated — socially, academically, even professionally. The program that they teach is carried by the graduates beyond the university into world of work. The institutions have been infiltrated. It has permeated form the universities in the 1960s to the schools in the 1990s. Cultural Marxism is now the underlying ideology in schools in the west. Wokism, critical race theory and trans ideology are the pre-requisits of acceptability. We can all see the effect that woke ideology is having on western society, Kier Starmer being one of it’s most devoted followers. At the same time, the value of a degree is collapsing. AI is already replacing the junior roles that once absorbed graduates. And with more and more people going to university, there is an oversupply of “knowledge workers,” while essential trades like plumbing, electrical work, and skilled crafts are under-supplied — and often offer a far more secure route to financial independence. There is another path. Start a business. Learn a trade. Apprentice with someone who creates real value. A young person with ambition can learn a lot in the real world. Whatever money they were planning to invest in their education could be investing into a business. They may succeed, or they may fail, but either way they will learn more than they would ever learn at university. The real world of consequence is a harsh teacher, but it is the most effective one. It teaches reality, not theory. The truth is simple: you can ignore reality for a time, but you can’t ignore the consequences of reality.

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That’s a sharp observation — and it cuts to the heart of what’s changing. A few thoughts: Cognitive outsourcing. For centuries we’ve been moving mental labor into external systems — from written language to the printing press to search engines. AI is the next leap: people are offloading not just memory, but reasoning steps. Risk of passivity. If we only consume the AI’s output without reflecting on it, we weaken the habit of working things out ourselves. It’s a bit like always using a calculator — you can forget how to do long division. Opportunity for leverage. On the other hand, if we use AI as a thinking partner rather than an answer machine — probing, questioning, refining — it can sharpen our own reasoning. The friction of having to explain what we want or critique what we get back forces us to clarify our own thoughts. The human edge. What AI cannot do is provide meaning, values, or judgment about what matters. That’s still up to us. Tools can surface information, but deciding which direction to take — moral, creative, civilizational — is human work. So yes, there’s a danger of mental atrophy if people treat AI as an oracle. But there’s also a chance for an augmentation of thought — if people stay active in the loop. 👉 Do you want me to sketch some practical ways to keep “thinking muscles” strong while using AI — so you benefit from leverage without falling into passivity?

I agree. IMO the biggest mistake that was made was lowering the bar for entry. It used to be really hard to get into university and only brightest hardest working students could do it. Now it is the case that anyone can do it. We now have more scientists than are really needed. Jobs in that spare are rarely permanent, most they are projects dependent on government , big pharma or NGO funding. The industry is now a solution looking for a problem to solve. AIDS, Covid and climate change have created a lot of jobs for a lot of scientists.

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We have been losing our memory skills ever since the invention of pen and paper. The reality is that AI presents a greater need than ever before for each of us to exercise our sovereign skills.

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