No need to apologize! Be a human first. We’ll still be here when you’re ready to share more about the show, but there’s no rush on our end🫶

Like I said, it’s baked into the Saja Boys’ DNA to be critiques/satire of the kpop industry. Even their songs do this. Overcommercializing it all feels a bit like the squid game effect where we start to dilute the actual meaning of it all a bit too much. I’m skeptically side eyeing is all..

Also the SB’s music ranges from “not very subtle about wanting to suck your soul” to explicitly stating what they and their intentions are. Their songs aren’t totally without substance in context, but they’re not exactly,, complete standalone experiences. And they only have the 2 songs :/

Unless I’m misunderstanding smth here, idk. Maybe I’m the idiot. That’s possible.

But if I am understanding properly, they’re trying to make basically an actual, real life recreation of the Saja Boys group. And if that’s the case, even just for a few shows or smth, my point kinda stands.

It’s giving a similar energy to the Mr. Beast squid game thing, if that makes sense. Idk how I feel about it. Especially cuz the Saja Boys are very obviously a satire/critique of the kpop industry’s treatment of their male idols. So to try to make a real life Saja Boys group doesn’t,, feel right

I just think our education system is so foundational to everything about civilized society in general, and it should probably be restructured.

It’s important to me that I LEARN this time. That I walk away a more knowledgeable person than before. That MATTERS to me. Not just so I can do passable in a career, but so I can feel accomplished. So I have an area of expertise. So I can be HELPFUL to animals and their owners who don’t know better!

Bc I KNEW if I did it online, I would just fall into my old habits of doing the bare minimum workload, and I wouldn’t actually retain the info. And I didn’t want that! I still don’t!!! I’m never proud of myself when I feel behind.

I WANT to learn the stuff I need to know! I WANT to do a good job!

Homework can be valuable. I don’t entirely dislike the idea of it, but its potential is not always utilized in practical ways. In my experience, more often than not, it’s part of the work smarter not harder philosophy. Students just find ways to cut corners rather than learn from it.

Education should be about becoming more whole people.

Education should be more flexible and inherently accommodating.

It should be free and very well-funded.

I believe grades, as a concept, are reductive.

I think we throw a little too much at students at once in terms of time and workload.

I just don’t have the time to do that when I have to survive physically/mentally/emotionally.

I don’t have the time to be smart AND be a human being with friends, hobbies, interests, good eating and sleeping habits, etc.

It’s too much. There’s never enough time and energy and focus to do it all.

And again, this is all coming from someone who has played the game. I was a good student. I still am a decent student. But at the end of the day, my skill is in knowing how to skate by off the bare minimum. AND I DONT NECESSARILY WANT TO DO THAT!! I want to be smart and know things!

I need to figure out how to survive in this world on my own. I can’t afford to be paying for years of schooling when I’m gonna need my own place to live, all sorts of insurance, utilities, transportation, and a million other expenses.

Jesus I could go on about this forever..

And if our education system was structured differently, I would’ve loved to learn about tons of other subjects or get better at my hobbies like drawing or music.

But things are so productivity-based, expensive and time-consuming. Now I’m a young adult. I don’t have time for that anymore.

I’m someone who can appreciate book learning conceptually, but I need to see how it applies to my life in a meaningful or tangible way in order for it to really stick with me. Reading and audiobooks and flashcards are not enough for my brain to latch onto the material.