:22:01
If I fail all the time...
:22:03
it must be that I think
of myself as a failure.
:22:06
If I don't want to think
of myself as a failure...
:22:09
perhaps I should begin
by succeeding now and again.
:22:12
Look. The tests, you see...
:22:15
which you encounter
in school...
:22:18
in college, in life...
:22:20
were designed for idiots
by idiots.
:22:24
There's no need to fail at them.
:22:26
They're not
a test of your worth.
:22:27
They are a test of
your ability...
:22:29
to retain and spout back
misinformation.
:22:31
Of course you fail them.
They're nonsense.
:22:34
No. No.
:22:37
Yes. They're garbage.
:22:39
They're a joke.
:22:41
How can you say that?
:22:42
Look at me.
:22:45
The tenure committee.
:22:47
The tenure committee
come to judge me.
:22:50
The bad tenure committee.
:22:52
The test. You see?
:22:54
They put me to the test.
:22:55
They had people
voting on me...
:22:57
I wouldn't
employ to wax my car.
:22:59
And yet I go before
the great tenure committee...
:23:02
I have an urge to vomit...
:23:05
to puke my badness
on the table... to show them.
:23:09
I'm no good.
Why would you pick me?
:23:12
They granted you tenure.
:23:13
Oh, no. They announced it.
:23:16
But they haven't signed.
:23:18
You see? At any moment.
:23:21
They might not sign.
:23:23
The house might not go through.
:23:28
They'll find out my dark secret.
:23:31
What is it?
:23:34
There isn't one.
:23:37
But they'll find
an index of my badness.
:23:40
- Index?
- A pointer.
:23:43
A pointer. You see?
:23:45
You see?
:23:47
I understand you.
I know that feeling.
:23:51
Am I entitled to my job
and my nice house...
:23:54
and my wife, my family?
This is what I am saying.
:23:57
That theory
of education which...
:23:59
- I... I...
- What?