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Getting through university, especially in tough programs such as math, hard sciences, or engineering, is the only rite of passage we have left. Not really true
by goatinaboat 7y ago
Getting through university, especially in tough programs such as math, hard sciences, or engineering, is the only rite of passage we have left.
Not really true. Anyone who wants a more traditional “rite of passage” to adulthood can join the military at 18 and go to boot camp.
- txtsd 7y agoPlease. Signing up to be your government's lapdog is not a "rite of passage".
- goatinaboat 7y agoNeither is wearing a funny hat and picking up a certificate, but the physicality of boot camp is a lot closer to the traditional meaning of the phrase.
- bwb 7y agoI was stunned to hear that. Service in whatever form is def a rite of passage. Signing over your life to something bigger than you is def a rite of passage. Especially when there is a chance you might lose your life as a result. Government is us, it does great good and some bad, but ultimately it is civilization. If you want to change it go vote and get involved, but don't complain about the people trying to make the world better in their own way.
- linksnapzz 7y agoHow silly would that be. Clearly, adulthood is marked by agreeing to become a financial milch-cow fattened on government loans, and milked by rapacious administrators in the service of insouicant and unaccountable "education" institutions. The most respectable of which are still Nozikian utility monsters devouring everything in their path. Yeah, doing 4 in the Army is so inferior to that.
- pyuser583 7y agoNot with my health conditions. If you look at the average freshman class, well over 50% have some medical condition. Sorry if that’s nitpicky, but a really large number of young people just don’t qualify. Also, the military isn’t really in the right of passage business anymore.