# the boredom factory - an english university life by student survivor robert what status: conceptual ![[cover-for-the-boredom-factory-english-university-life-student-survivor--robert-what.png |300]] example front cover for the boredom factory collected sociopolitical anecdotes by critically minded ex-students who found the uk system of university education utterly rubbish violetly disappointing andor terminally boring an existential expose of the acute poverty boredom and absurdity of so-called higher education a free forthcoming book about english university life at a lousy 'university-of-bums-on-seats' style pseudo-course in the deep north we chew slow baked biscuits with locally grown raisins and think back to the dire grey heck of higher education and try to fully recall just how miserable we were there > we are born endowed with a lot of creativity [..] but we then go through an education system that very carefully is designed to get rid of most of that creativity. in england now we've got it down to a fine art. we can educate people for twelve to fifteen years and they come out absolutely thick. it's a triumph actually > ~ artistic generalist brian eno exploring creativity red bull music academy talk april 2018 ever experienced a bad sad andor-surreal time at a uk university? generally felt let down and screwed over by the education system? have interesting or odd anecdotes about your time there? or perhaps you just feel generally alienated by the whole sorry confusing and depressing mess? at what point in your education did you wise up to the fact you're just a worker drone being trained like a dog to do future useless menial jobs for the rest of your miserable existence; systematically had your intellectual bandwidth narrowed to the point of becoming as dull as tutors your parents and ir generation of work-crazed wage slaves? contact robert what today; if your anecdotes are included in the book you'll get full credit (no real names will be used; researcher lab tags only eg 'henry swanson') // republic of bob