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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm in a similar boat. I've been thinking about returning to university to pursue a PhD, not because I have any ambitions around being a professional academic, but for love of my subject area, and also there's something of the video game completionist about me. I haven't 100%-ed higher education yet.

But then again, I don't want to spend thousands on another degree (I'm not a gifted enough academic to get funding, unfortunately) to be bombarded with woke nonsense for a couple of years.

[–]Esseteee[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Academia is going to end up being full of fools this is a threat to knowledge in general

[–]black_sheep 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can tell you that getting the degree will probably do more to harm your love of your subject than help. The social isolation is also not worth it. Most of the secondary literature on the authors I study is incoherent postmodern rants about why those authors are evil and truth doesn't exist except for the supertruth of Marxist materialism and transgenderism and everything else the contemporary academy demands you agree with.