Do You Really Need College in 2026? The Big Lie.

Do You Really Need College in 2026? The College Lie.`

Do You Really Need College in 2026? Is it Worth It? Cop & Entrepreneur Says NO. In this raw, no-filter rant, a former police officer turned entrepreneur—who graduated with a criminology degree—explains why college in 2026 might be the biggest scam holding most people back.

From CO*ID turning campuses into a "police state" with va%*ine mandates and brainwashing, to the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and Grok making traditional degrees obsolete, he breaks down why self-education through "YouTube University" and real-world experience beats $100K+ in debt for a piece of paper.

He shares his own story: building a campus taxi business while in school, seeing the dark side as a cop, authoring his first book, and escaping "the matrix" of average life, and why entrepreneurship gives true freedom. If you're a high schooler, current student, or parent questioning skyrocketing tuition—this unfiltered truth will make you rethink everything. Like if you agree college is overrated, comment your thoughts below, and subscribe for more real talk on mindset, wealth, and breaking free from the system!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Do You Really Need College in 2026?
0:30 - How COVID Turned College Into a Police State & Brainwashing
2:00 - Why College Today Is the Greatest Psychological Operation
3:15 - ChatGPT, Grok AI & YouTube University: Better (and Free) Education
4:30 - The College Scam Exposed: Paying for a Worthless Degree
6:00 - Escaping "The Matrix" – What Andrew Tate & Entrepreneurs Really Mean
8:00 - My Degrees, Police Career & Seeing True Evil
9:30 - College Distractions: Alcohol, Parties & Losing Focus
11:00 - How I Built My First Business on Campus (While Others Partied)
12:30 - Know Yourself: 16 Personalities, Enneagram & Finding Your Path
14:00 - The Liberal Bias in College & Why It Holds You Back
15:30 - Entrepreneurship = Control of Your Destiny
17:00 - Careers Without Degrees: Police, Trades & Why Skip the Military
18:30 - Final Advice: Start a Business, Own Your Future 

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Chapters

• 0:00 The Big Question: College In 2026
• 0:30 COVID And Campus Culture Shock
• 1:40 AI, YouTube, And DIY Education
• 3:15 The Matrix Metaphor And Mindset
• 5:10 Degrees Versus Real-World Experience
• 7:00 Personality Tests And Knowing Yourself
• 9:05 Independence, Sports, And Side Hustles
• 10:50 Finishing School While Building Skills
• 12:10 Entrepreneurship And Owning Your Path

Transcript

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The big question, do you really need college in 2026? I say no. And here's why. If you're in college today in 2026, you are being subjected to the greatest psychological warfare operation that has ever been perpetrated on mankind. And it started in 2020 with COVID. It was my last year in college. I was a senior, uh, pretty much on my senior year. I was just getting uh just about to go into the police academy. So I guess it was my junior year in college, is when COVID really hit. And it was 2020, and that was when college became just absolutely just complete la la land. It was crazy. At police state, if you didn't get your value, you're just the worst person ever. You you don't care about people all of a sudden. It was complete brainwashing, brainwashing people, and you remember it. So I remember it, but ever since then, it's only gotten worse. And so, college today, no, I don't recommend that most people go. I don't think most people should go to college. Okay, the reason you shouldn't go to college is because today with Chat GPT, with Groc AI, you can literally get an education from that. You can get an education from YouTube today, YouTube University is what I call it, what everybody else calls it. You can have an easy life without wasting all of your money on in on tuitions. Okay, the greatest scam was always pretty much college, beside paying taxes, it's college, okay. Because in college, what are you really paying for? You're paying for this piece of paper, you can kind of wave it around whenever you need to, but the issue is it's like you know, what's really useful is your brain, your intrinsic knowledge, your curiosity. Okay, how willing are you to seek the truth? And are you willing to find it? Do anything you can to track it down. How strong are you in your convictions? Do you stand for something? Are you willing to speak for what you want to stand for? And that's that's the difference between most people. Most people aren't willing to, and they need the average uh serving of life, so to speak. They need the average existence, and this average existence really stops us intellectually, it stops us in the sense that it holds us back, it puts us in the system, it keeps us in the moving engine that is the United States government, that is really the matrix, you could call it. Okay, so what is the matrix? When you hear this term by Andrew Tate or all of these entrepreneurs, what is the matrix? The matrix was inspired by Steven Spielberg's film The Matrix with Keanu Reeves, and where he plays this individual who's an outcast in the world. And essentially, he's brought into the matrix the simulation. He follows the white rabbit and he brings himself into the real world, the real world, which is like a hundred years in the future in this movie, in this film. And when he unplugs from the matrix, he realizes that everything he ever knew his entire life was a lie. Everybody was fake, nothing was really real, everything was just a simulation. It was all ones and zeros, it was all in just the code. And I'm not saying that the world is necessarily like this. What I'm saying, as somebody who's been an entrepreneur, an investor, a police officer, and I've done it all, I've seen it all, I've seen the worst, I've seen the most evil things, I've seen the most heinous things. And so the things I've seen in my life and done in my life and experienced, even just outside of law enforcement, I've learned that you need to truly just be intrinsically curious in your own ways. You need to seek the truth, or other, otherwise you're going to drift and you're going to struggle, and you're going to end up in the college path. Okay, and this is the issue. With college, you're almost taught to like hate your country. And that's what I hated about college myself. What I did not like about going to college, I went to the University of Olivet. I got my um bachelor's degree in criminology and um marketing and forensic uh psychology, but really I focused on criminology and law enforcement administration. That was my first degree, and then I minored in marketing and I minored in uh forensic psychology. And so these were the areas that I really studied in. These were the areas that I focused in. And so I, of course, had essentially became a journalist in college because when you're a criminal justice major, depending on the college you go to or criminology, forensic psychology, I was in there too, and marketing, all of it combined, you're basically a journalist. You're like a writer, you're kind of you have to learn how to get stories out at the right time, right? That's the journalism aspect. But then there's the media aspect where you have to learn how to, you know, get things done at a certain time. You got to be highly organized, and then you also got to be able to bob and weave, right? Just like any other thing. In college, I also played football and baseball, so I was highly athletic and I loved sports, and that was fun. But at the end of the day, it was kind of stupid. It was it was a waste of time, right? I mean, like I built my first business, Numerico, which was this taxi service, and it was my first ever trademark. Essentially, it was it was great. I was making money off of intoxicated kids on campus who were drunk and just having a good time, but I would drive them back. I was the guy who would drive everybody back to their apartments or their or their dorms on campus. I was that guy because I didn't really drink, I was extremely healthy. Still am. I don't drink, I don't do drugs, and nor do I advocate for it because you need to keep your mind extremely healthy. But I digress. You know, in college I learned that all of these things you have complete and total access to. When I say all of these things, I'm talking about drugs, I'm talking about distractions, alcohol, especially alcohol, right? When you turn 21, your parents are encouraging you to drink. They're like, hey, you're 21 now. Woo-hoo! Now you can drink. Let's go get drunk. And you guys, you know, you have fun. And my mom was great about it. My mom was actually really responsible and she was awesome about it. She was cool. And so I have no complaints. But I know other people who, you know, I I've seen it myself where it's like maybe they shouldn't have been in that situation. Like, I was super responsible. I was a good kid. I didn't really, you know, I like you can ask anybody in my hometown, anybody I know, they would tell you that I was, you know, I was extremely healthy, I was extremely athletic in school. But with that being said, you still need to make sure that you are really focusing on your studies in school. When you're we if you do go to college, if you do get stuck in this trap of college, then you need to get out of it. And I say this to really spark something inside of you. If you're already stuck in college now, it's like you either you either suffer with paying for that for the next few years, or you start a business, you do something else. And maybe even while you're sitting there, maybe you finish college. I finished college, I got my degree, I finished it. I I made it through the four years. I'm just making this episode to say, for those people who are wondering, should you go to college? No. I I think it's I think it doesn't hurt you to go to college, obviously. There's nothing wrong with going to college, there's nothing wrong with having an education, but at the same time, there's also something really important about having real practical experience and building things with your hands and doing stuff, being out there in the world, you know, like even like even these live streamers today. Live streaming's huge. I don't really do that because I I like to make cuts in my videos, like as you can see from this video. I am not so perfect, so I can't necessarily do the whole live streaming thing yet. Maybe one day I will, but I find that to be kind of dangerous too because everybody can kind of know where you're at. You know, they can dox you pretty easily when you're live streaming. When you make a video like this, you can clip it, you can make it how you want it to be. And I kind of enjoy that. So that's kind of the reason I don't really like I stay away from live streaming, but maybe I'll get maybe I'll get into it one day. It does look like a fun challenge. College. Do you need to go? No. You should not beat yourself up if college isn't right for you. Everybody has a different path, everybody's built for something else. Everybody has a different personality type, a different brain. Taking the 16 personality types, personality test for individuals, you can take it online, it's free. But the 16 personality types came from Carl Jung, and it's one of the most accurate tests. I am an INTJ or an ENTJ typically. I'm like right kind of in between, but I'm more of an INTJ and an ENTJ. And then I've scored one time an INTP and then an ENTP. So those are like my four shifting personality types, but you should take that. You should know what your personality type is. What is your enagram? You know, I'm I'm kind of a type one, you know, I'm kind of a type one, a type five, a type eight, type three, I think I've gotten before. Point is you gotta know thyself. You have to know who you are, and you have to know what your visions are. And college kind of diludes that experience, I think. College teaches you to be basic, it teaches you very basic things, it teaches you, again, very liberal stuff. It's very liberal, and I did not like that. You know, what I liked about college was my independence. I liked my dorm, I liked being alone, I liked playing video games, uh, working on my book. I wrote I wrote a book while I was in college, uh, how I made my dorm my office. It's on Amazon, but I was writing that book. I was busy. I was a I was in college football, I was in college baseball my freshman year, and then when I wasn't in football or baseball anymore, I was essentially again, I was writing my book, and then I was the uh weight room supervisor while I was working there at uh Olivet College, which is now called the University of Olivet. I did good, I did it right, I guess. But I struggled, you know. For me, it was hard because I didn't really want to be around people. I wasn't a big fan of people. I didn't, you know, I liked being alone. I liked, like I said, I I liked, I enjoy, I'm very introspective, I'm very introverted. I like being in my own uh in my own space. Always have. Don't take it too seriously, but take it seriously. Try to finish, try to accomplish it, do something great, set the bar higher if you are gonna go. Be proud of yourself that you are going. There's nothing wrong with being educated, and don't let anybody ever tell you that there's anything wrong with being educated. It's just that you may have to spend a little bit more money than you wanted to. You might end up in some more debt. Um, you are gonna get a little bit cheated by the system, and that's the whole point. You know, that's why I'm such an advocate to start your own business and to become an entrepreneur of some sorts, to really be try to come into yourself so that way you can become your own person. You need to own your own world. What was interesting about one of the videos I just saw on X, somebody had posted it, and it was about it was an expose on Jeffrey Epstein. You know, something positive to take out of this entire tragedy, this evil man. One thing that was interesting that he had said was I started my businesses so I could be in control of my destiny. That is the truth of why people become entrepreneurs. That's why I advocate for most people to become entrepreneurs because you'll never truly become your own self until you do this, until you go through having to start your own business. You know, you to file the paperwork, to be okay with competing against people, especially with people who are better than you, to push yourself outside of your comfort zone, to leave the nine to five life and to do something harder. You know, and there's nothing wrong with keeping your nine to five. I have I'm not complaining about that. If you love your job, that's a great thing. I'm not telling you to go and leave your job. But at the end of the day, there's always something more. We can always become something greater. So that's my message to you. So if you're watching this and if you're wondering, hey, should I go to college? I'm a young kid, I don't know. You need to ask yourself, what are you good at? What do you want to do? Do you want to be a lawyer? Do you want to be a professor? Do you want to be an engineer? Do you want to be a doctor? Because in those cases, then yes, you need to obviously get a degree. But if you want to be a police officer, then not necessarily. We had a lot of kids in our academy that didn't have a degree. You know, they just they joined the Explorers program and boom, they basically were on a one-track system to become a police officer. Academy paid for, internships, all of that stuff. So there's a path for you. If you want to become a police officer, that's the way. And you could do it like that. Or you can go to the military, but I wouldn't recommend that, obviously. We're gonna be, if you're going to the military, you're gonna be fighting out, you're gonna be fighting wars in Iran, you're gonna be going right back to the Middle East, and you're gonna be there for about 10, 20 years. If you're lucky, it might even be 30 years. We're gonna be going into some big changes, big times. You wanna build your business, work with me. Friend and call sharkmedia.com, and I will see you next time.