Jeff Goldstein posts on lefty Professor Jere Surber's inability to understand the reality that is his limp (and as he sees it, unfair) paycheck. There's something about the pecking order whereby professors of the softer sort make less money than those who pass along the 'hard' sciences.
Well, imagine that! Lefty Professor Surber wants more cash for his mostly self-congratulatory 'profession', and has this huge butthurt that he’s perceived as less useful to a modern, supposedly more 'progressive' society. News Flash! Your are less useful to humanity than any physicist, medical doctor, most scientists, and all astronauts. (Notice I didn't mention lawyers; that profession I think is the lesser of even a weakly-thinking Professor of Guitar... )
Let’s see any of these Liberal Arts academicians do a thing to, say, improve any human’s lifespan or get us closer to Mars. Best they can do is slow us down, as Obama’s done by slashing away at NASA, with demands for socialistic equivalences.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Liberal Arts studies, mind you. Prof. Surber's argument is that he and his oh-so-almighty liberal ilk should be worth more on the open market (is he getting in line for another Obama 'bailout'?). Well, Prof, hard science academes (producers of the ‘good stuff’) vs. you of the fluttery (softer) liberal arts (consumers, mostly) deserve exactly what you are getting: less than those who produce and improve the physical aspects of our market society.
I find you next to useless, Prof. Surber. And worth much less to me than is, say, my dentist.
(Be sure to visit and read Jeff’s first linky to David Thompson, for more.)
Well, imagine that! Lefty Professor Surber wants more cash for his mostly self-congratulatory 'profession', and has this huge butthurt that he’s perceived as less useful to a modern, supposedly more 'progressive' society. News Flash! Your are less useful to humanity than any physicist, medical doctor, most scientists, and all astronauts. (Notice I didn't mention lawyers; that profession I think is the lesser of even a weakly-thinking Professor of Guitar... )
Let’s see any of these Liberal Arts academicians do a thing to, say, improve any human’s lifespan or get us closer to Mars. Best they can do is slow us down, as Obama’s done by slashing away at NASA, with demands for socialistic equivalences.
Not that there’s anything wrong with Liberal Arts studies, mind you. Prof. Surber's argument is that he and his oh-so-almighty liberal ilk should be worth more on the open market (is he getting in line for another Obama 'bailout'?). Well, Prof, hard science academes (producers of the ‘good stuff’) vs. you of the fluttery (softer) liberal arts (consumers, mostly) deserve exactly what you are getting: less than those who produce and improve the physical aspects of our market society.
I find you next to useless, Prof. Surber. And worth much less to me than is, say, my dentist.
(Be sure to visit and read Jeff’s first linky to David Thompson, for more.)