Re:How Fear and Outrage Are Sold for Profit
by aub3bhat on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:20PM
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>> You're also short-changing those liberal arts majors. After all, many of them go on to law school, with the result that Congress is about 2/3 liberal arts majors.
Congress the beacon of efficiency, progress and wisdom.
I majored in philosophy, not CS.
Some of the best technologists I've ever worked with were film majors, history majors, philosophy majors, sociology majors, &c.
By far, the most important skill for this kind of work is critical thinking.
That's mostly because he's been dead for 10 years. Also, if you're trying to sell empty philosophy to "average, depressed liberal-arts majors who lack power and knowledge", it strikes me as a particularly bad idea to start with a 1,076-page tome? I mean–he could've at least made it a 12-part series, right?
You're also short-changing those liberal arts majors. After all, many of them go on to law school, with the result that Congress is about 2/3 liberal arts majors. And it's not like the liberal arts have nothing useful to teach. Most graduates would, for example, consider the idea that "in reality power [..] is essential if one aims to enable true change" a tautology in need of an editor.