Transmission 4 - Life Journey
May 29, 2021
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When I went to college, it seemed to me that most of my peers were in pretty much the same situation as I was. It was I think, an end of an era, the era of student radicalization and awareness of the inequalities of the system. The students I knew were mostly scruffy and poor and lived in poor accommodation. Much later, when I began working in a University, I suddenly noticed the shift to luxury both in student accommodation and dress. There were more students than ever, and a lot of these appeared very affluent students. There was also a huge effort on the part of the university or at least speculators affiliated with the university, to cater to the richer student. So luxury accommodation close to the university sprung up, with all sorts of amenities that I had never dreamt of as a student. Certain, affluent students were, I thought, being treated like a commodity. Like valued customers rather than young minds to be guided and shaped. When considering this seeming change in the student lifestyle, I began to wonder how someone like me would fare in the modern university system. And of course, projecting this onto a planet-sized university where a poor student's accommodation might be miles from the lecture block (or lecture island in the case of U-Life), gave rise to all sorts of ridiculous ideas of what would happen on the journey to an ordinary everyday lecture.
The tone of the narration is deeply ironic, using the sort of euphemistic language a brochure might make when trying to avoid mentioning the reality of status on the University. There is also an element of revenge on callous local bus drivers who had often kicked me off for not having the correct change, leaving me stranded and unable to get home for hours.
This is a two-part story. I hope you'll read the next transmission to find out what happens to poor Globak; if he manages to reach his lecture and of course, what becomes of the more fortunate Swerthy F'Bramm.
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