Pfft...I'm a Film major and had to take chem. Please. BTW as a fellow liberal arts major, I must say I am very turned on by your ability to put a sentence together, let alone ENTIRE paragraphs. I'm swooning, seriously. That all by itself would get you all the anal you could ever want from me!

I can't believe this blog. I just finished a paper for a film class tonight about the EXACT same thing. I likened today's "entertainment" to fast food, but hey--I know exactly what you mean. (I hate Ronald Reagan too). Wow. Is it wrong that this makes you really hot to me? Where's my lube...and my car keys...

You write so, so well

I know exactly what you mean. I have had many similar thoughts recently just haven't been able to organize them all into the cohesive mass you just did. I sit in my Gen. Ed. classes about useless bullshit like Holistics(doesn't even deserve to be taught as it's all speculative fiction) and wonder why in the hell I'm even in college. I came to participate in the free flow of ideas. I wanted to hear about new ideas and meet people with contrary dispositions similar to my own. Most of all I wanted to participate in intellectual discourse. While these things do exist in very limited pockets, that's just the problem, it should be what college is all about, not something you have to scrounge for. College has become exactly what you describe, a sit down, shut up kind of experience. Whenever you question the validity of the instructor's statements you just get ignored. I'm glad that someone else sees this besides myself and I'm really glad that it was someone who can articulate the idea so well.