💭 Circe Says: Ancient wisdom for modern problems

Circe is an ancient Greek minor goddess who spends her days on X, chronicling the late-stage American empire and dispensing advice on life and love in the digital era. You can submit your advice questions to her directly at Circe @vocalcry.Let's say you wanted to escape a cult. Let’s say the cult is academia, to keep things abstract. How would you do it?When you consider that the number of people with freshly minted PhDs every year far exceeds the number of people who join the Church of Scientology, it is worth asking how academia continues to find young recruits willing to give away years of their productive lives to engage in esoteric rituals in near poverty and ...

The Blaze     Mar 30, 2024