I went up to them and asked why they were attending lectures when they weren’t continuing the strike. They had no idea what to say. They were nothing. These were the people who had been screaming to dismantle the university, and my contempt for them was total. These pathetic people were going wherever the wind blew. You see, Kizuki? What a bullshit world this is, I thought. This is the kind of person who works hard to get credits and goes on to build our bullshit society.

Compare with the quote from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey.

And another one:

By the second week of September, I’d come to the conclusion that university education was totally meaningless. I decided to think of it as a test of my endurance.

Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood”