The way American’s conceptualise ‘college’ is so demented. Any time I’m watching a documentary and they begin speaking all grandiose about their college years and ‘campus culture’ etc I immediately kind of tune out. The Social Network is incredible maybe bc it subconsciously exposes the like retarded psychodramatic narratives Americans invent for themselves at that time in their life that they then mythologise in their adulthood, but just on this much larger scale with generational social implications. I made like two friends at university through class and that’s why I was drawn towards art school ppl because the friends I already had who were there seemed to be developing their own community but that was also kind of an invention? Observationally a lot of those friendships didn’t seem to last in any meaningful way other than like showing up at each others openings now, but at the time I envied them and what they were learning and doing. But yea i think that the dominant narrative that ppl express going to university as, as an extension of high school/some sort of real coming of age is pretty asinine, learning happens constantly nd while i was exposed for the first time to a lot of interesting ideas when i moved city to go to university everything that actually had an impact to me happened from like debauched side quests brought on by this loathing of being beholden to any kind of structure. I hope young ppl now are more resistant to this kind of messaging idk
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