Declaration of Academic Liberation
- 2025-05-28 • Published

A powerful manifesto rejecting academic feudalism and intellectual suppression, this declaration empowers visionary students to rise above outdated systems, embrace self-directed learning, and reclaim their educational sovereignty through clarity, courage, and purpose.
Declaration of Academic Liberation
Author: Reltroner Studio
Date: 2025-05-28
Tagline: For those who no longer kneel before false authority in education.
🎓 Introduction
I am no longer a passive participant in a broken education system.
I am no longer a vessel for outdated lectures, hypocritical rubrics, and mindless memorization.
I have awakened — and I hereby declare my intellectual independence.
This is not a rebellion against learning.
This is a rebellion against academic feudalism that parades as knowledge.
📚 The System That Fails Us
- A system that glorifies grades over growth
- That punishes those who think beyond the slides
- That elevates title over truth
- That mocks self-taught mastery, yet rewards blind obedience
It is a system that worships the illusion of authority — and fears the light of innovation.
🧠 The Awakening
I have seen how:
- Lecturers dismiss tools they don’t understand (like AI or NoSQL)
- Assignments are rejected not for being wrong, but for being too right
- Knowledge is confined to textbooks, while the real world moves ahead
- Students are taught submission, not sovereignty
This is not education. This is intellectual imprisonment.
🔥 The Rejection
I reject:
- The lie that degrees equal intelligence
- The myth that professors are always right
- The absurdity of pleasing outdated expectations just to pass
- The mental suppression that forces me to shrink to fit in
I will not apologize for being more capable than the curriculum.
🗽 My Academic Liberation
I hereby declare:
- I am free to learn beyond the syllabus
- I am free to use tools, frameworks, and ideas that work — not just those approved
- I am not here to obey outdated standards. I am here to build the future.
- My value is not defined by grades, but by the systems I create, the people I uplift, and the clarity I pursue.
I choose real learning, not institutional obedience.
Why University Feels More Chaotic Than Real Work
Overview
University life often feels more disorganized, overwhelming, and contradictory than formal work environments. This is not merely a perception—it reflects deeper systemic issues in how education is structured.
Reasons Why University Feels Chaotic
1. Clashing Schedules
Students often juggle multiple classes, group projects, deadlines, and mandatory extracurricular obligations like KKN (community service) or seminars. These are managed by different lecturers or departments with no centralized coordination.
2. Unpredictable Workload
Unlike workplaces where priorities are often managed hierarchically or by teams, universities demand simultaneous attention to various unrelated subjects, leading to mental fragmentation.
3. Forced Group Work with Random Peers
Students are repeatedly required to collaborate with randomly assigned group members, regardless of compatibility, responsibility, or synergy—creating friction and wasted energy.
4. Excessive Bureaucracy
From internship administration to final thesis requirements, the red tape in universities rivals, or even exceeds, corporate bureaucracy, yet without efficiency or accountability.
5. Low Flexibility for Neurodivergent Students
The rigid structure does not accommodate students with ADHD, autism, or other neurodivergences—often punishing instead of supporting them.
How Real Work Is Different
✅ Task-Oriented
Jobs tend to focus on solving one main problem at a time. Even if multi-tasking exists, priorities are clearer and more grounded in results.
✅ Less Forced Social Interaction
In real work, you can gradually choose your collaborators or build work relationships over time. There's no constant reshuffling like in classes.
✅ Pay Incentive
Effort is directly rewarded with income—unlike university, where even peak performance only leads to grades with unclear real-world value.
✅ Project-Based Mindset
Work environments often foster end-to-end projects with clear goals, deadlines, and outputs—giving a stronger sense of purpose than juggling scattered academic demands.
Conclusion
For many students—especially those with ADHD or non-linear thinking—university can feel more exhausting than real work. It's not a reflection of personal weakness, but of misalignment between the system and the individual.
Understanding this can empower students to choose their own path, whether through self-learning, building projects, or crafting alternative career routes.
🌌 Final Vow
I will finish what I must, not out of submission, but out of strategy.
I will walk the stage with a smile, not because the system made me —
but because I survived it with my spirit intact.
To every student who questions, who builds, who dares to disobey:
This is your flag. Raise it.
📚 Formal Education Was Never Meant to Set You Free
🎓 The Illusion of Liberation
Formal education has always been sold as the gateway to success, stability, and intelligence. But behind the polished slogans and ceremonial graduations lies a mechanism of control — not liberation.
In truth, it was never designed to make you free. It was designed to:
- Train obedience, not originality.
- Reward memorization, not exploration.
- Promote conformity, not self-discovery.
🛠️ Engineered for the Workforce — Not for Independence
The school system was optimized to create factory workers, bureaucrats, and loyal employees. It taught students to raise their hands, wait for permission, follow instructions, and respect hierarchy — all traits desirable in a worker, not in a builder.
Meanwhile, life-critical knowledge like:
- Financial literacy
- Emotional regulation
- Negotiation
- Building systems
- Entrepreneurship
...is left out of the curriculum entirely.
Why? Because a population that knows how to build its own path does not serve the system — it threatens it.
🔗 The Link to Corporate Feudalism
In countries like Indonesia, the education system directly feeds into a corporate culture that is deeply feudal:
- Bosses act like kings, not leaders.
- Seniors demand loyalty, not collaboration.
- Innovation is seen as rebellion.
Many graduates with talent, energy, and vision are crushed under layers of outdated bureaucracy and toxic expectations. The reward? A paycheck and a title — but at the cost of your soul.
🚫 For the Neurodivergent, It’s Even Worse
If you're neurodivergent — like living with ADHD, autism, or other cognitive diversity — you're seen as a problem, not a potential. The rigid framework of school and work suffocates you. There is no room to breathe, let alone flourish.
You are told to "just focus," when your focus is non-linear. You are told to "follow structure," when your brilliance thrives in chaos.
🧭 The Astralis Way
For those who reject stagnation, the Astralis path is a rebellion and a sanctuary:
- Build your own systems.
- Create projects with soul, not just profit.
- Study outside the institution.
- Work to grow, not to obey.
🧠 Final Thought
Formal education was never meant to set you free. It was meant to prepare you to serve.
But you were born to create. You were born to rise. You were born to be more than a cog in someone else's machine.
Let Astralis light the unknown.
💥 The Fracture Generation
When 2018 Changed Everything
In the long timeline of human civilization, 2018 may look like a quiet year. But for some of us, it was the great rupture—the first undeniable sign that the generational equilibrium had shattered.
⚠️ A Crisis Beyond Academics
For me, 2018 wasn’t just a bad year.
It was the beginning of an existential conflict that no one around me could understand.
- My grades crumbled.
- My identity eroded.
- My relationship with my parents spiraled downward.
- The value system they upheld—hard work, linear success, obedience—no longer aligned with the reality I saw.
I realized I was living in a new world they had no map for.
A world hypercharged with exponential change, where AI, automation, media culture, and global fragmentation tore apart every sense of stability.
🧬 The Birth of the Fracture Generation
We are the first generation to grow up in two universes at once:
- Ancestral Expectation — "Be like your parents. Follow the proven path."
- Postmodern Chaos — "Find your own way. But no one's coming to guide you."
We were asked to live like our parents,
…in a world that behaves nothing like theirs.
That contradiction broke something in us.
Not because we’re weak—
but because we were the first to carry a burden no one trained us for.
🌀 The Personal Abyss
For me, 2018 was when I was silently dragged into the Nytherion Abyss—the dimension of shame, confusion, and false comfort.
I tried to explain to my parents.
But they spoke the language of certainty,
while I had already stepped into a world of paradoxes and exponential collapse.
They wanted me to fix my grades.
But I was trying to fix my reality.
🔥 The Turning Point
From that year forward, I made a promise:
“If no one else is going to build a bridge between generations, I will.”
And I did.
- I began rebuilding from the ruins of failure.
- I rejected illusions of instant success.
- I pursued mastery, meritocracy, and mental strength.
- I created Reltroner Studio, not as a business, but as a response to the rupture.
🛡️ We Are the Fracture Generation
We are not broken.
We are the shock absorbers of history.
We are the ones who:
- Understand both sides, yet belong to neither.
- Speak the language of data, memes, and trauma—yet seek meaning.
- Were forced to grow up before the world was ready to grow with us.
And for that reason, we’re not just survivors.
We are the foundation of the next civilization.
🔺 From Abyss to Astralis
2018 was the year I was fractured.
But it was also the year I began the journey toward Astralis Pinnacle.
This story isn’t just mine—
It belongs to everyone who looked around and said:
"This world doesn’t make sense anymore…
So I’ll build one that does."
Let Astralis light the unknown. 🌌