'' STARRING GLOBAL STUDENTS '' : PLATINUM ESSAY

MARK MY WORDS : WITH Almighty God's blessings, by the time 2026 ends, '' ignoring the beauty, the art, the science, the service of The World Students Society '' will be illegal, just about anywhere and just about everywhere.

Attention is every students' most valued commodity. Get enough attention and one way or another, the cash will flow. And to monetize the self, one must have a self to monetize.

! WE THE STUDENTS ! : REMEMBER : DEMOCRACY thrives on more democracy. The more democratic !WOW! gets, the more and every chance of building a world class organization committed to the service of mankind and a sparkling new world.

WE LIVE in an age of identity. Every student, just about everyone seems to need to have a profile.

Did Norman Mailer compile an arresting book called '' Advertisements for Myself ''?. Now we're all advertising for ourselves.

We post our pictures, trumpet our achievements, boast about our plans.

As Adam Phillips says, not knowing for certain what the good life is, we settle for enviable life.

Attention is our most valued commodity. Get enough attention and one way or another, the cash will flow. And to monetize the self one must have a self to monetize.

We cultivate the sense of identity in a world where there are very few props for self-construction. Hate is one, and perhaps the most reliable. [ I hate therefore I am.]

Freud said that in order to thrive in life he needed a committed friend and a fierce enemy. He needed to show the enemy what he was made of [ Carl Jung obligingly played the role of both in sequence.] 

I once heard Harold Bloom, a fine writer and teacher, say that he welcomed criticism, the nastier the better. For the catcalls he heard at his back inspired him.

He went so far as to say that the catcallers were doing his work for him.

This Master Essay Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks Professor Mark Edmundson, University of Virginia.