06-26-2019, 07:17 AM
(06-26-2019, 04:46 AM)taramarie Wrote: It actually has an excellent point and the only worthless thing here is the commentary that goes along with it above my comment. It is spot on for us millennials, including us millennials overseas who are stuck with the mess and who have been lied to by boomers particularly about the freaking degrees.
The narrowing of opportunity has become an objective. On-the-job training is better for meeting occupational requirements than is a college degree, especially for clerical and production work. Formal education, unless for extremely-technical work or as preparation for professional schools might as well have the purpose of showing people how to live to the fullest. Poetry, drama, music, dance, art, and (all in all) the expansion of the mental universe are far better than 'sex and drugs and rock-n-roll'.
The problem originates right here in the good old U.S. of A., where we have been getting the worst of plutocratic gouging with the economic sadism of bureaucratic elites. While people with graduate degrees get stuck with the 'temporary' hardships of 'adjunct professorships' that pay little better than retail sales, college deans (who used to be college professors who dreaded the role but needed to the money because they could not teach) take on the roles of CFOs and CEOs -- and the salaries -- for gouging students and making sure that college teachers are 'only' adjunct professors.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
