Goodbye and Good Riddance to College Humanities

Should I kiss the viper's fang or herald loud the death of the humanities?

Anyone who gets the subtitle wins some sort of prize. Maybe an intangible one with no monetary value since I don’t even have any paid content to give away at this point in time, but still a prize nevertheless. Some things are priceless.

Two correlated events have been occurring recently: The firing of all these awful college presidents and faculty such as Claudine Gay for being a bunch of Jew-hating Communazis, and the general falling out of favor of humanities degrees with the general public. I think this is a sign the tides are turning.

You see, even though the Baby Boomers want you to think they were the people who landed on the Moon and beat up the Soviets during the Cold War, that was actually the Greatest Generation. The Boomers didn’t come into power until the 90s. So when you think about the fruits of Baby Boomer power, you should realize that it’s really more like George Bush than any of your 60s and 70s or even 80s heroes, and just as there’s a Greatest Generation, there’s a Worst Generation, we just don’t call them that out of politeness. It’s not like Baby Boomers is as cool as Gen X (X-Men! X-Files! Xbox! Xtreme!) Millennials (apocalypse!) or Zoomers (Superspeed! Hyperdrives! Racecars!) anyway, since Baby Boomers just makes me imagine a giant baby slamming the ground in a tantrum.

The fact is there are so many Communazis and Baby Boomers in the humanities because they attract one kind of person: the kind of person who doesn’t want to work. Thus, what the humanities mostly regurgitate ends up being more and more rhetoric about the supposed joys of communism and the supposed evils of having to actually do work. The horrible show The Big Bang Theory was probably the last huzzah of the Lazy Boomers.

Why the Baby Boomers Were the Real Commies All Along! (substack.com)

The Big Bang Theory, Baby Boomers, and Science (substack.com)

If you like classics because you like Greek civilization, just study what actually made Greeks civilized and study STEM. I count social sciences as STEM if they’re rigorous enough, but please check your individual department before you decide to enroll, if there aren’t math or programming courses or even chemistry courses in the case of biology (though biology needs more math and physics too,) it’s almost certainly not rigorous enough and is basically a humanities course rather than a STEM course.

On the other hand, if you were attracted to the humanities because you just wanted to get out of college as soon as possible, please switch to a STEM field and try to get an undergraduate (or maybe graduate if applicable) research position. They exist! You can get paid!

The history of the humanities was always for a bunch of spoiled brats who are going to inherit the family firm and people looking for MRS degrees (or MR degrees.) Some people might think they have valid reasons to pursue them, including people who aren’t lazy, but I’ve laid out all the reasons why not. You are just going to find yourself surrounded by Communazis who want to kill Jews and Lazy Boomers even if you aren’t yourself like that.

I was very temporarily in the humanities for one semester because I just wanted to get out of college and start doing work until I switched to STEM because I was smart and wanted to actually put my brain to work and I saw that getting a humanities degree obviously wasn’t going to result in anything good, you need a proper degree to publish papers. Now I happily study mathematics even though I wouldn’t say I want to become a pure mathematician, I just feel like everything I want to learn is math, facts are always changing but math isn’t. Basically everyone innovative when you look at it actually started in math, whether it’s biology or computer science they ended up researching, but also we need more math, I think there are lots of problems we can’t solve because we just don’t know how to on the a priori level. Most of my posts on this blog will be about highly technical topics going forward, though certainly not all of them. They should be accessible to an interested audience and not only to someone who’s an expert in that, but still technical nevertheless.

In the meantime, I’ll be happy to watch all the humanities departments metaphorically explode, and hopefully not literally explode, though with all the Hamas fans in them they just might at this point, so you can’t be too careful.