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| Day Brown... |
 Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 12:29 am |
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Look at the remarkable success in computers and software produced by
geeks who did not have masters, much less PHDs, or even bachelor's
degrees. Success comes from innovation, thinking outside the box, and
not brown nosing academic chairs.
The innovation that led to so much entrepreneurial success came out of
minds that were not, in fact, that well educated, but had the focus, a
kind of tunnel vision of the mind, to ignore what academia was saying,
not get with the program, and deviate from what looks good in a photo of
the staff.
LSD produced code that academic chairs could not even understand, much
less write themselves. It takes a deviant mind to deviate from the
conventional lack of wisdom to produce strokes of genius.
Education is all about conformity, and yes, we do need the grunt work
done, but it hasnt been that useful to those trying to break new ground.
Then too, it usta include the classics composed by earlier generations
of genius who challenged convention, whereas now, it largely ignores the
work of Homer, Plato, Aristotle... Machiavelli, Gibbon, et al in favor
of the drivel produced by some academic chair whose view is limited to
the group think of the current generation.
If one is familiar with the work over the past 50 years by Milgram on
obedience, Zimbardo on authority/submission, Janis on Group Think, and
Ekman on autonomic facial responses, then you understand how a debacle
like Abu Gharib unfolded, and you realize that water boarding and all
other forms of torture are obsolete.
But what passes for education in the social sciences in particular,
shows current received authority has their heads so far up each others
rectal orifices, they didnt even pick up on it.
And when a young person gets hired on at the start of a new career, the
first thing they are told is to forget everything they learned in
college. Even tho they still have the student loans to pay for.
College is basically a place to park your ass for few years while you
figure out what you want to do after you leave. You could do the same in
a public library for a few years, and not have nearly the expense.
Rather than citing the degrees you've earned, put down the list of the
authors you have read, and perhaps something of what you learned from
them. If the personnel officer is not impressed with that, you dont
wanna be working there anyway.
And rather than going away to college, if you find a field you want to
look into, look up the professional conferences, and pay to attend, and
while there, listen to what they have to say of your plans from people
who are actually successful in the field. Remember- those who cant
perform at a functional level and compete in a line... teach it.
If you went to professional conferences for 4 years, you'd have all the
personal connections that were established there to get in the door, at
a fraction of the cost of the academic degree.
But if you lack the talent to compete in these professions, go ahead and
read the classics anyway, and you wont sound like an idiot every time
you say anything or post something here.
"Stoic Warriors" by Sherman is an interesting piece of work. She starts
out mentioning Homer's report of Achilles, but then what Plato had to
say of that, which was in turn picked up on by Aristotle, Cicero, Cato,
Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and on thru a chain of educated thinkers up to
recent times, like an internet thread going back thousands of years.
I dunno that it will help you make a living, but it will help you make a
life worth living. |
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