The education system seemed like a mystery to me.

It frustrated me to no end because people wouldn’t (later I learned they couldn’t – big difference) give me a straight answer.

Nobody really grasped it.

The stories they told me held no internal coherence, now a decade later I see that I was in fact correct, they were wrong.

The promise of high school university job happiness was bullshit. Not a deception they were actively aware of or knowingly contributing to. But one they were complicit in the same way we are all complicit in funding wars by keeping our money in banks.

Education systems were not built to educate people, they were built to standardise people.

This isn’t a flaw, it’s a feature.

Recognising this helped me learn about myself, my place in society and the niche I take up in the ecosystem of ideas.

Some of us are meant to fit in, others are meant to find the unexplored edges and crack them open.