I went to a community college with a good food court (Taco Bell) and won a national debate championship high. I chose not to continue my educational career because I became involved with the burgeoning field of selling financial products that would later be called toxic assets. I often wonder what my life would've been like if I had gone to a small liberal arts school like most of you did. Like most of you I imagine I would be happier and not funny. I visited my friends at colleges and it mostly consisted or copious amounts of drugs and alcohol. People of all races and genders hitting bongs all day, getting drunk in the morning before a football game, eating cereal at night, watching documentaries about aliens and CIA mind control, bonding with whatever life forms lived in the college town. "That's Tom he took a bad hit of acid a while back. He's fun but sometimes he just starts screaming". People would have gross mattress on floor sex. This world was fun to visit. It was never entirely for me. I was not to listen to some hippie professor prattle on about nothing for hours. I was drawn to the operators: people whose way in the world was forged by their ability to apply coercion, to manipulate, to arrange situations in ways favorable to them. The people who stuffed all their childhood traumas into a bag and tossed it out the window of a Range Rover going 100 miles an hour. The unexamined life IS worth living in Scarsdale. But I saw a value in the old houses and college towns, the sexual freedom and the drug experimentation, the debates, the collision of cultures and ideas. Now college is a Stalinist factory of conformity where children are taught to fear speech and ideas and live sad sexless lives attached to their phones. It's a nightmare of organic food and crying. I never regretted my decision to not pursue higher education. Whenever someone says something dismissive about that I always smile. "Someone as smart as you should've gone to college." I watched people make and lose millions, economies crumble, world's emerge and disappear. By 22 I was mired in the type of debt it generally takes a life time to accrue. I watched a friend go from making 50K a month to delivering pizzas. And then 6 months later I was at his funeral. This was right around the time my friends from college were graduating. I have always loved incredibly damaged people who don't live in that place. The ones who move on. The ones who make things. I loved visiting my friends at college. But I'll never forget what one boss said to me "Tim I'll always be rich. You know why? Because everything else is boring". I'll never forget that. Long live the crook. Burn these colleges to the ground and make all these faggots pound the phone.


















