Cubicle Contradiction

This book continues to be like the scratching of fingernails against a chalkboard, the dissonance hard to take. There is this continuing contradiction that the academic author is telling us to not get so caught up in academics. The abstractive thought is creating contradictions in many people's lives that can continue because the contradictory thought justifying their actions is in disjuncture with reality.

Crawford's analysis of college degrees is very interesting as we have already discussed similar issues in class where we feel like we're just getting a piece of paper that doesn't really mean anything besides status. I get the general feeling that society pushes towards having degrees in a manner that is disenfranchising the poor and minority groups. The white privileged people have more access to a college degree to secure their spot in society while minorities have a much more difficult time because of the on going cycle of poverty. Degrees are a large part of what decides class in the United States, a way of disguising or abstracting the racism that exists within the system.