Maybe effort and skill are a part of what brings satisfaction, meaning, and dare I say humanity to a life?

They're going after Ivies and fancy R1s in the hopes that other institutions will follow suit on their own. With these broad reforms, at least, the current admin is a paper tiger. Institutions need only not comply in advance.

There are thousands of institutions in the U.S. The reason Trump is after Harvard, Columbia, Penn, etc. is that they know they cannot enforce this sort of directive unilaterally, especially given their simultaneous intention the lay off the whole DoE.

I'm bummed about the limited release. I saw it last week--such a delight!