[lit-ideas] Re: Adios, amigo; adios, critical thought

Quoting Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Truly, Donal, do you know any really educated people?  Most people I know
> simply subscribe to some form of groupthink irrespective of how much or how
> little education they have.  I suspect, though, that this has always been the
> case.  

Our very own RP on this list is a "really educated people." Surely you could not
have missed that. 

Walter O.
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>    
>   When I was in college as an English major I used to look at the world and
> see in it the paradigms, for lack of a better word, that I found in my
> literature.  I realized a while ago that I can't do that anymore.  Did seeing
> paradigms make me educated, or did it just make me good in my field, such as
> it was?  On the other hand, today I've substituted all sorts of more
> satisfying paradigms in the place of literary ones.  I think a college
> education is (at least for me) a good thing, but not if all one learns is the
> joy of hostile takeovers and 'market analysis'.  Analysis when applied to
> Wall Street is a contradiction in terms.  Wall Street runs out of the
> emotional brain and/or fantasy, so by definition there is nothing to know
> about Wall Street.  There's the occasional Warren Buffet who does use his
> rational brain, but everybody else is groupthink, lemmings following each
> other off the cliff and here we are, in another fine, this time
> extraordinarily big, mess brought to
>  us by expensively, if hardly extensively, educated Masters of the Lemming
> Universe.  Right.
>    
>    
>   
> 
> Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   My thought exactly (it was only a brief thought - look at that window!)
> 
> D
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 21/2/08, Andy wrote:
> 
> > From: Andy 
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Adios, amigo; adios, critical thought
> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Thursday, 21 February, 2008, 5:16 AM
> > Meaning you agree or you don't agree? 
> > 
> > 
> > Robert Paul wrote:
> > > Colleges are basically just very expensive
> > vocational 
> > > schools. 
> > 
> > Right.
> > 
> > Robert Paul
> > Department of Vocational Theory
> > Mutton College
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