I have come around to a similar view. With all knowledge freely available on tap - college is not needed for lecture based learning. Ambitious 18 year olds should get to work and do the degree on the side (a few fields may still need in-person full time but they will be exceptions).
Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.
Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”
Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.
Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”
Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.
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 entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.
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 doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.
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 didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.
8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.
The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.
💔 Worst Venus Placements — When Love Hurts Instead of Heals
♍ Venus in Virgo: Overthinks love. Feels unloved or unworthy. Too much logic, not enough heart. 💭💔
🏚 Venus in 6th: Love feels like a job — conflict, imbalance, or constant fixing. ⚔️
🕳 Venus in 8th: Secretive, obsessive, or draining relationships. Passion turns toxic. 🔥
🌀 Venus with Rahu: Illusions, temptations, fake glamour. Desires over love. 💄
⏳ Venus with Saturn: Delayed or cold love. Tests loyalty through time and pain. 💍
☀️ Combust Venus: Ego burns affection. Craves attention but misses connection. 🌞
✨ When Venus suffers, it teaches — real love isn’t found, it’s earned through truth and self-worth. 💫
Swami Laxmananda Saraswati spent over 40 years of his life under threat of death by Naxali-Missionary alliance in Orissa but nobody saw him worried. He smiled. He smiled when the govt was Congress and he smiled when it was BJP. He refused to leave even when he was very old and frail and could not defend himself. He gave his life for us in the end. I like to imagine he was smiling then too.
My shat shat pranaam to our Sadhus who have defended the faith when common people like us live our lives and seek money and material things.
You are our heroes 🙏
Thirupparankundram is the First of the Six Abodes of Lord Murugan (Kartikeya). The practice of lighting lamps atop the hill during the Tamil month of Karthigai is an ancient tradition of Hindus. It is sad and ironic that today the Hindus in Bharat have to seek judicial interventions to practice their faith and perform their rituals. If, even after winning a decisive legal battle, devotees cannot perform a simple, peaceful ritual on their own property, then where, in their own country, shall they truly find constitutional justice?
In short and simple, let all the Hindus in Bharat understand this - The bitter truth is - The Chennai High Court affirmed our right to light the Deepathoon - first by a single judge, then upheld by a higher bench. Legally, the battle was won. Yet, practically, we were forced to adjust.
Ask yourself - Can any religious festival be moved a week late? Can a holy day's celebration be shifted to a different time? No. Because the sanctity of religious time and the integrity of every religious calendar is non-negotiable.
Yet, for Sanatana Dharma, the moment—the sacred Karthigai Deepam—was stolen, vanished forever. Why? Because Hindus can be taken for granted. Sometimes it's the governments, sometimes it’s the executive, sometimes it’s the NGOs, sometimes it’s a random pseudo intellectual groups – but every time, it is Hindus who accept the loss and adjust. We secured the right, but lost the ritual. This repeated, systemic denial is why a time has come to demand more than just court victories - We need the Sanatana Dharma Raksha Board where devotees actively manage their own temples and religious affairs.
Mockery of Hindu traditions and rituals has become a norm for certain groups. Do they dare to do the same for other religious events?
Does Article 25 become an optional right instead of a fundamental right to the Hindus? Can a Police Commissioner or a District Magistrate unilaterally nullify a specific High Court Directive? If the High Court confirmed the Deepam lighting was a "harmless religious act" on legally owned land, who decides that this practice constitutes a threat to "communal harmony," and by what legal mechanism? How come HR&CE Department consistently and repeatedly act against the interests of Hindu devotees and their temple's traditions, and how do these officials evade serious accountability?
Hindus should observe the collective spirit and solidarity shown by practitioners of Abrahamic religions (religions of Arabian origin) when religious issues arise. They overcome their ethnic, regional, and linguistic differences for the sake of their faith.
As long as Hindus remain divided by caste, regional, and linguistic barriers, the mockery, insults, and abuses against the Hindu religion and its practices shall continue. If Hindus in our nation don't unite under a common minimum program with the collective spirit of Hindu Dharma (or Aram in Tamil), this spirit will be lost.
I hope for a day when every Hindu from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Kamakhya to Dwarka wakes up to the humiliation Hindus face in their own land.
#Tiruparakundaram
#SanatanaDharmaRakshaBoard
भक्तीतून सामाजिक शक्ती हा सार्थ विचार जगाला देणारे स्वाध्याय परिवाराचे प्रणेते पद्मविभूषण पांडूरंगशास्त्री आठवले यांच्या जयंतीदिनी त्यांना विनम्र अभिवादन.🙏🏻
#पांडूरंगशास्त्री_आठवले#PandurangShastriAthavale
@Yashraajsharrma If tithi falls on Purnima then on which day/tithi shradh have to perform. Lots of confusion is there every year. Everyone has a different opinion. Plz request you to clarify.