Angus Fletcher
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2,582 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
Angus Fletcher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Antiheroes, exactly.
He goes on to invent the modern romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, where you've got like these feisty female characters.
He goes on to write, create existential tragedy in plays like King Lear.
Of course, Hamlet is essentially the beginning of the modern novel.
But that was the moment when he had to get into the mind of a plotter and think what it was like to be someone who was changing the world.
That's where it seemed to click for him.
Yeah, that line came from when I got to college and was totally disillusioned.
And so basically college gives you the illusion of power because you're taught by all these professors who in the context of college are incredibly powerful because they're engaged in these ritual acts that have no actual magical function, but they take them very seriously.
And so, you know, the longer you stay in school, the longer you learn to sort of ape and mimic these professors doing these things.
But then the more time you spend in school, the more incompetent you become at life.
At a certain point, you start to realize this is happening and you face this like weird choice.
You say, well, do I go all in on the system?
And do I basically say that I'm going to try and get myself a job as like a banker or something where I keep engaging in the role play, but I get alienated and alienated from my true self?
Or am I going to do the courageous thing and essentially drop out?
and do my own school.
And the pressure against that is so tremendous.
Kids today, unlike previous generations, I don't think dropping out of college is such a big deal for previous generations because they're not going to college.
But now it's almost become the sign that you have intelligence.
It's the fact you have a college degree.
And so I think a way to think about university is it's fake magic.
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