People react strongly to humiliation inflicted on them. I guess my point is to direct that rigtheous personal energy against proper targets. I promise I won't lift a finger to defend bankers, for example. By the way, this stuff about humiliation and action dovetails with Nathan's objection to one of my posts. IIRC, it was that the increased production of Ph Ds hadn't translated into positive political developments (or something like that).
I have not looked at the statistics to see whether Ph Ds in the U.S. have indeed been produced at unusually higher rates in the last few years or decades. But I think it's a fact that (on average at least) the more educated people are, the less crap they are willing to put up with. If there's truth to this, then rebellions against the social order tend to happen more frequently when, other things constant, there's a larg*er* redundant educated population. But, to complement Louis' posts, here's a reliable source on how society's resources are being scandalously wasted by producing Ph Ds when what we actually need nowadays is more people to clean toilets and dig ditches: http://www.economist.com/node/17723223 On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > Again, you tell anecdotes. It's all about how you or a close friend > of yours got humiliated by this or that academic at this or that point > of your or his life. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
