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You get to sound smart and erudite. In other words you get to act like @denlillaapan who loves to throw around the fact he went to Oxford (or Cambridge?).
I love to throw that around?! Darn, I've failed... I usually uphold it as a failure, seen-the-crap-from-the-inside sort of achievement.
Fair. Old elite institutions are corrupt decaying dinosaurs.
Elite learning at Oxford survived everything: crusades, protestantism, secularism, big gov, world wars, medieval fights, empires rise and fall.
The hubris I need to honestly believe that it's permanently doomed is so insanely large
World wars and crusades and religious war — I should have mentioned the civil war! — didn't die...?
I haven't turned on some intl news tv channel in a year or so but if I would, I bet I'd see a world at war, a bunch of retarded crusaders and somehow religion still being at the center stage of at least half the wars. It all just got a bit more asynchronous and agile.
Civil war is a good one tho and I think that it's, like occupation, among the riskier for an institution. Closeness to home and all.
You posted something about a visit a year or so ago, which was definitely showing that they pretty much got their shit figured out. So I do think that your resilience point stands. It's interesting to figure out the tools in the toolbox to make it so.
The hubris I need to honestly believe that it's permanently doomed is so insanely large
i'm sure you're up to the task
totally. Etymology/instantly deriving meaning of complicated words.
Also, I've been told, it's good practice for e.g., coding or other super stringent endeavors (follow procedure, details matter)
Yeah, I think Latin is where I draw the line, I don't see much use for it in my life haha
But I think it's used a lot in some sciences?