Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial.
Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise.
Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”
For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant.
The internet erased that in a decade.
Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth.
The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal.
Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”
That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance.
You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule.
Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”
The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command.
Four years of obedience dressed as education.
Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”
The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission.
The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test.
Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”
They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low.
The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement.
It is not. It is the floor.
A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the on
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Carrie Underwood did a wonderful job here with Randy Travis
Randy Travis has battled some health issues and for him to say AMEN like that, that's incredible
Carrie let Randy have the moment and shine
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I've liked your demeanor and logic, but if you're going to begin spouting nonsense, you just lost a fan. You should appologize.
Watch it again.
On the 5th integrated flight test of Starship the Super Heavy tower catch (better know as Mechazilla chopstick catch) SUCCEEDED AT THE FIRST TEST.
Congratulations @elonmusk and all the @SpaceX team!
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WAPO reporter doubles down: You didn’t say that you condemn white supremacy though.
She immediately regrets it.
@VivekGRamaswamy isn’t going to play the game.
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Plus he quotes Thomas Sowell to an audience which has probably never even heard the name.