- Great minds take alike. Living in Brookline the pipeline starts horrendously early too. Box checkers and grade grubbers, it’s a way of life but not of independent thought or intellectual curiosity, just clinging to any chance of status and financial stability.
- At my spiciest, I'd argue that the American college system has become a way of gatekeeping, a pipeline for our own faux-meritocratic nomenklatura. Especially at the Brand Name schools. POSIWID. There are prep and feeder schools that exist just to grease the skids if money and name alone isn't enough
