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

  • From: Andy <min.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:31:18 -0800 (PST)

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.  
   
  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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