Just found this over at The Diff?rance Engine: Advice for Prospective Undergraduates Who Read.

It’s a great piece; also a sign of the times. My advice for prospective-undergraduates-who-read is to form yourselves into small, well-trained anonymous militias, and carry out clandestine dawn raids of pulverisingly efficient violence against “students” who don’t read.

It’s no good just relying on little support networks of like-minded souls amid a sea of boozy apathy (and, by the way, there’s no rule that says you can’t read and booze. It’s perfectly straightforward - just take your books down the pub. And, obviously, your fellow literate-militiapersons, to defend each other against getting beaten up either in situ or on the way home). That’s just providing the justification for the system to continue as it is (and you’ll all end up doing PhDs, or at least starting them…). What’s needed is Terror, I tell you! The kind of terror that can only be engendered by a prolongued pelting with weighty hardbacks, followed by the vigorous insertion of a rolled-up photocopy of Derrida’s Positions into Alain Badiou’s (alleged) favourite recreational orifice…