To double down on my simplistic take: whites can more easily opt out of rat-race, meat-eating, etc. trappings. And they will do so individually at their convenience. Non-whites do that at our peril. We need all the PhDs we can get, as they are, even. We cannot wait until educational systems are thoroughly transformed.
On Monday, May 13, 2013, nathan tankus wrote: > Julio: that is a very simplistic (dare I say undialectical?) view of > education in America. No one here is arguing against the benefits of > being an intellectual or becoming educated. what is being argued is > the problems associated with getting a doctorate. Under our current > societal arrangements, it's simply impossible to support everyone > getting a doctorate, let alone everyone getting a job in the field > they get their doctorate. universities are further incentivized to > expand PhD programs to sizes that are unsupportable by the academic > labor market in order to reduce their own labor costs. This is a > problem that needs to be dealt with and means that for those who enjoy > a discipline intellectually, pursuing a PhD might not be a great idea. > The point however, is not simply for more people to abstain from > getting graduate degrees. the point is to restructure this system so > that it can support more intellectual advancement and puts people in > less precarious positions. Of course the final goal is to redistribute > and reorganize work. > > There is nothing "anti-intellectual" in that position. > > -- > -Nathan Tankus > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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