Rio de Emocion

Tl;dr version: people are weird

My recent adventures into the social world of academic life have made me raise some questions about the futility of my intentions. Here I am, talking to all these students, trying to raise my own social status one step at a time. These people however, seemed pretty stupid. A few days ago, I was at one of these so-called "social drinks" of the faculty association (faculty of history, cultural and media sciences).

Although I've probably made a reasonably good impression on most of the people I've met for the first time there, I left pretty soon so I wouldn't screw things up. There was an incredibly high risk of finding common ground and running out of things to talk about with these people. It was pretty hard to find anything interesting to talk about, although there was one guy who worked in Beijing for a couple of years. I think that was the only halfway interesting person in there who actually seemed to know something about the world.

All of these students are supposed to invest hundreds of hours into studying history and culture and whatnot, yet all they have to talk about is their favourite football club or what place has nice but affordable pizzas? What the smurf? Why are their ambitions and longterm plans limited to what they're doing this weekend? Why don't they actually know anything about history and culture beyond the crap they've read in the few books that are on the required literature lists for their courses and why are they unable to deliver any form of critical thought?

All this nonsense makes me wish I was still studying for that MBA. At least them business school students only pretend to give somewhat of a about others and everybody knows it. It's a perfect world of social interaction because when everything people say is fake, it's easy to tell what's real. The business world is pretty straightforward. I've lost that advantage now.

Talking to these history and cultural sciences students confuses the smurf out of me. It's genuinely hard to tell which of these mothersmurfers are smart and which ones are truly retarded. I mean I've talked to a couple of guys who seemed to suffer from some major retardations, but at the end of the day, there doesn't seem to be much difference between them and the average person. It's kinda like regular society. I don't know why I'm trying to become king of these fools. Maybe that makes me the biggest retard of them all, kinda like those dictators around the world.

I should go back to studying economics and business or something. It's actually the only thing I find as interesting as military stuff. I don't like the current social world I'm trying to get on top of, but on the other hand it does pose a challenge, and I don't like to refuse a challenge like this. We'll see how it goes. Sure as hell beats sitting at home all day.

on a side note: why the hell is the spelling check thingie telling me almost every word is spelled incorrectly??!