songs of solitude;

of conspiracy and poverty

there was a secret mission tonight.

defacing billboards in the name of poverty. me and my fellow...nameless activists are sick of the pretentious propaganda that is being plastered - particularly on 8ft Trent University promotional billboards; "The world belongs to those who understand it."

What does that even mean?!

It's infuriating. If only we could all be so lucky as to attend Trent. But at almost a wopping 5 K a year for tution alone, education is sadly not something that many can afford. Does that mean that world does not belong to these people? Just because post-secondary education is not economically plausable?

I go to university. I'm learned. And what I've learned is that in this very intricate capitalist system, there are those that work hard - so hard - for very little, all their lives. And then there are those who work off the backs of these people. The elite could not exist without the proletariat. We could not enjoy our comfortable, middle class lifestyles in suburban North America, studying at our quaint little universities, without the cheap imports we receive from China and the like.

We don't even recognize poverty in our own communities, let alone entire nations in our "global community". The world certainly must belong to those who can understand it, because learned as I am, and try as I might, I fail to.

Screw the university. Screw profitable gain off education. What does a degree really say about me anyway? That I am institutionally deemed competitant? Or is this just a widespread conspiracy - a system whereby employers only hire university grads because they are paid off by the schools themselves, who we in turn pay in order to enter the work force? I don't doubt it.

It's a big joke, if you ask me. I really hope this anticipated doomsday of the oil peak comes soon. I want to watch all the diplomats scramble as their source of power is ripped out from under them. Then who will be laughing? The farmers. The poor. The proletariat. The people.

But until that day comes, those billboards still stand. A propositioned, smiling Trent University student, bearing the arrogence of the administration. A minority student, of course - to show that Trent is a diverse atmosphere. It is where everyone should want to be.
If only they could get there;

posted by crooked girl @ 2:53 AM