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Wait, there are still people defending liberal arts degrees as "rounding out a person" in the age of the internet? How quaint. Your children will know more ab

Wait, there are still people defending liberal arts degrees as "rounding out a person" in the age of the internet? How quaint. Your children will know more about the humanities, history, natural science, and the arts, and they will do so from watching videos on the internet for fun at no cost... or they'll be absorbed into either the vacuous consumerism of pop entertainment or the indoctrinated pseudo-intellectualism of academia. Personally, if I had to choose, I'd take the former, because at least those idiots aren't insufferably arrogant about their stupidity. The dumbest people I know have PhDs.

closedloop129 4y ago
>... in the age of the internet? Your children will *know* more ... Facts vs thinking. Where do you go to learn how to debate and how to structure knowledge?
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
  indeed. If you get your "facts" off of YouTube, critical thinking skills become ever more important.
- sanxiyn 4y ago
  I learned how to debate in IRC, not university. These days, people seem to learn how to debate in Discord.
- bregma 4y ago
  In modern society you're either a consumer or a worker. There is no space for "thinking": that leads to questioning authority and that is not to be tolerated. If you want to learn a useful skill, just attend the same country club your daddy did. That and the legacy is all you need. Education is a good place to drink and get laid but you're not going to need it.
  - nonrandomstring 4y ago
    - Pol Pot from Cambodia - Mao from China's Cultural Revolution - Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey [1] - Joseph Stalin, author of the Great Terror - Adolf Hitler in Poland [2] - Ahmednejad in Iran [3] - And ISIS, in the smoking remains of the Middle East [4] * All agree with you [5] * [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20517969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20517969 [2] https://www.dw.com/en/the-mass-murder-of-polish-intellectuals-and-the-german-nazis-who-got-away-with-it/a-50815653 https://www.dw.com/en/the-mass-murder-of-polish-intellectual... [3] https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ahmednejad_urges_purge_of_liberal_and_secular_intellectuals/ https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ahmednejad_urges_purge_of_... [4] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis---echoing-the-purges_b_6617588 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis---echoing-the-purges_b_6... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism

closedloop129 4y ago

>... in the age of the internet? Your children will *know* more ... Facts vs thinking. Where do you go to learn how to debate and how to structure knowledge?

SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
indeed. If you get your "facts" off of YouTube, critical thinking skills become ever more important.
sanxiyn 4y ago
I learned how to debate in IRC, not university. These days, people seem to learn how to debate in Discord.
bregma 4y ago
In modern society you're either a consumer or a worker. There is no space for "thinking": that leads to questioning authority and that is not to be tolerated. If you want to learn a useful skill, just attend the same country club your daddy did. That and the legacy is all you need. Education is a good place to drink and get laid but you're not going to need it.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  - Pol Pot from Cambodia - Mao from China's Cultural Revolution - Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey [1] - Joseph Stalin, author of the Great Terror - Adolf Hitler in Poland [2] - Ahmednejad in Iran [3] - And ISIS, in the smoking remains of the Middle East [4] * All agree with you [5] * [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20517969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20517969 [2] https://www.dw.com/en/the-mass-murder-of-polish-intellectuals-and-the-german-nazis-who-got-away-with-it/a-50815653 https://www.dw.com/en/the-mass-murder-of-polish-intellectual... [3] https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ahmednejad_urges_purge_of_liberal_and_secular_intellectuals/ https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ahmednejad_urges_purge_of_... [4] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis---echoing-the-purges_b_6617588 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/isis---echoing-the-purges_b_6... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism