...and since you've twisted my arm...

...here it is. My very own post.

Don't you feel lucky? Do ya? Punk?

Anyway, I want to be serious for a moment. Has anyone else thought that the surest way to keep people from coming up with original ideas is to put them through college? The goal of the American university is to create a conformity of knowledge in the academic community, meaning that all of us going through it are taught to think exactly alike... maybe not to believe the same things, but to believe those different things in the same way.

Perhaps the greatest lengths are gone to in order to assure us that we are developing original ideas--and that's what's so dangerous about it all. Why else do universities assure us that they're "teaching us to think for ourselves?" Just think about that statement for a moment.

They do a darn good job of it, too. Excuse me. I must go back to studying my physics now.