[Redirecting to COFF; TUHS to Bcc:] On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:46 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote: This is an extraordinarily complicated subject, and it's really full of nuance. In general, I think your categorization is unfair. It sounds like you had a bad experience in your first semester of college. I can sympathize; I did too. But a thing to bear in mind is that in the first year, universities are taking kids (and yes, they are kids...sorry young folks, I don't mean that as a pejorative, but consider the context! For most young people this is their first experience living on their own, their first _real_ taste of freedom, and the first where they're about to be subject to rigorous academic expectations without a lot of systemic support) with wildly uneven academic and social backgrounds and preparing them for advanced study in a particular field...one that most haven't even identified for themselves yet. For the precocious student, this will feel stifling; for many others it will be a struggle. What, perhaps, you see as lack of intellectual curiosity may have in fact been the outward manifestations of that struggle. That said...Things are, legitimately, very different today than they were when Unix was young. The level of complexity has skyrocketed in every dimension, and things have gotten to the point where hack upon hack has congealed into a system that's nearly bursting at the seams. It's honestly amazing that anything works at all. That said, good things have been invented since 1985, and the way many of us "grew up" thinking about problems doesn't always apply anymore. The world changes; c'est la vie. - Dan C.