The most interesting thing I managed to find about Descartes was that he managed to get his name on this exclusive list . It would seem that Catholicism and the People's Republic of China share the idea that reading may indeed fuck with your head.
You've been warned. Anyways, on with the story.
Once upon a time, I participated in a class discussion about a subject I cannot remember. Something about software. In any case, I made a comment about the typical university education compared to that of the typical technical college diploma.
The comment described how the university kids end up not knowing much more than pseudocode and random theory, while the tech diploma people don't know much more than proprietary software packages. I think the exact words I used were "Microsoft Visio".
In any case, the accuracy of these statements is debatable. The effect of the statements is what is interesting.
Half the class were tech school grads (transfer students) and they were pretty pissed that I'd implied that they knew little more than how to fart around in popular software packages.
Nevermind that they should have been pissed because I also implied that university grads knew jack about the practical world.
The interesting thing to think about is that the tech school transfer kids didn't see themselves as being university students, but as tech school kids and were offended by my remarks about tech schools. Once in technical college, always in technical college it seems.
It shows that your reaction to the world depends greatly on how you define yourself. It doesn't matter if you fit in this definition, or if your view of events actually makes any sense at all (I tried my best to critique the hipster university types as much as I criticized the tech schools, yet the university kids didn't seem to notice)
If you were to describe yourself to others as a jilted lover, introvert or the reincarnation of Jesus, in your own little world that is what you will remain. What your role is in your imagined dreamland is what will model your behavior in real life.
If first and foremost you see yourself as a member of an mistreated group, it is this you will remain. "The Man" will always keep you down.
Have fun being perpetually victimized and offended.
Comments...
tim -
that makes no sense. because you told them they wasted their time before coming to university, they shouldn't be pissed off?
sheldong - well...
yeah, but i also said they are still wasting their time!
I was trying to explain how education is rarely well balanced, and everybody gets screwed in the end. Basically, nobody can rely on receiving the best information from the regular institutions.
And what they didn't know is I also transferred from a college, but they were too busy taking offense to what I said to bother wondering where I was coming from.
w0p -
Sheldon you missed the real point. All of your comments seem to have that effect on people. Oh well once a sheldong always a sheldong.
sheldong -
The offended can get stuffed!
giggly -
everybody seems to be missing the moral of the story here... who cares about the students... the point is this sentence "If first and foremost you see yourself as a member of a mistreated group, it is this you will remain. "The Man" will always keep you down." and also this sentence "What your role is in your imagined dreamland is what will model your behavior in real life." So, if you imagine yourself to be smart, funny and good at making love, then that's what you will model in your real life and no one will be able to tell you any different. :)
leo - actually
For those who weren't actually there, this is how this conversation went (I paraphrase here, but I think it's more accurate than Sheldon's glossed over version):
Sheldon : "We learn all this stuff at university and then when it comes to an actual job interview they always hire some stupid monkey from a tech school that was trained to use Visio but can't code their way out of a paper bag"
Tech school faction: "Hey! We're not just trained monkeys!"
Sheldon : "You took my jeeerrrb!"
sheldong -
hahahahhaahaha, that's hilarious.
I think giggly got the overall message exactly right.
Unfortunat ely, I can't really confirm nor deny Leo's recount of events. Maybe I could have been a little bit more civil.
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