Do the humanities need a rebrand?

[murph63]

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I've noticed that high school dropouts feel that professional employment in a large American corporation seems so exotic, so inaccessible and unimaginable to their life experience, that they assume nobody they run across could ever conceivably have worked in a Fortune 500 company.

It's not that that kind of job is unobtainable, it's that most people don't think the guy who uses AI and Wikipedia to make most of his points, who can't defend his own position in his own words and who screams like a stuck pig anytime someone disagrees with them could have worked such a job.

 

[Into the Night]

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I've noticed that high school dropouts feel that professional employment in a large American corporation seems so exotic, so inaccessible and unimaginable to their life experience, that they assume nobody they run across could ever conceivably have worked in a Fortune 500 company.

You never worked in the petroleum industry Cyborg. Mantra 1c. Lame.

 

[Cypress]

You never worked in the petroleum industry Cyborg. Mantra 1c. Lame.

You're really stressed out and agitated about by career experiences

Cypress employment history @ Exxon Corporation subsidiaries:​

Exxon Exploration Company​

Deepwater Nigeria Unit​

Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Unit​

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Exxon Production Co. West, Houston Texas​

Carthage Gas Field​

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Exxon Production Co. East, New Orleans​

West Delta 73 Oil and Gas field​

 

[Cypress]

It's not that that kind of job is unobtainable, it's that most people don't think the guy who uses AI and Wikipedia to make most of his points, who can't defend his own position in his own words and who screams like a stuck pig anytime someone disagrees with them could have worked such a job.

You're really stressed out and agitated about by career experiences

I've never even had a girlfriend as interested in the minutia of my work experiences as you and Moose are, LOL

 

[murph63]

You're really stressed out and agitated about by career experiences

I've never even had a girlfriend as interested in the minutia of my work experiences as you and Moose are, LOL

No just explaining it to you. Fuckin moron

 

[murph63]

I've never even had a girlfriend

Not surprised

 

[T. A. Gardner]

They need a return to relevance rather than revolution.

 

[Hume]

They need a return to relevance rather than revolution.

Which means what?

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Which means what?

The humanities, traditionally, were about freedom of thought, speech, and ideas. They conceptualized ideas using thought experiments and looked at the 'real' world and tried to explain it.

Today, the humanities are far more--at least at most major universities--about radical Leftist ideas, indoctrination, and propagandization. They seek a political narrative and fit everything to it. Freedom of thought, speech, and ideas are squashed and trampled.

 

[Hume]

Undergraduate demand for philosophy at Harvard​

Since the 2005-2006 academic year, the number of Arts and Humanities concentrators of all kinds at Harvard has decreased by 12.6 percent overall, according to data from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and some of the biggest concentrations have shrunk by more than half. Students studying English have dwindled from 276 to 117 in that period, with course enrollments down by 60 percent. History and Literature concentrators are down by 38 percent, Comparative Religion by 60 percent.

Philosophy, though, has more than doubled in size during that time. It is now the largest of Harvard’s Arts and Humanities fields, with 150 primary and joint philosophy concentrators as of 2025. That’s much smaller than Economics (953) and Government (589), the most popular University concentrations, but proportional to student body size, it’s about 10 times the national average.

Undergraduate demand for philosophy at Harvard

A nice profile of the Department’s successful undergraduate program; an excerpt: Since the 2005-2006 academic year, the number of Arts and Humanities concentrators of all kinds at Harvard has…

leiterreports.com

 

[Nordberg]

Education broadens you. You learn art, history, science and many other things that make you more aware of how the world became what it is. Trump define and think of college as a publicly supported apprenticeships for Corporations.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Education broadens you. You learn art, history, science and many other things that make you more aware of how the world became what it is. Trump define and think of college as a publicly supported apprenticeships for Corporations.

Question: Does that "broaden(ing)" provide a means to pay off your student loans?

 

[Into the Night]

You're really stressed out and agitated about by career experiences

Cypress employment history @ Exxon Corporation subsidiaries:​

Exxon Exploration Company​

Deepwater Nigeria Unit​

Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Unit​

​

Exxon Production Co. West, Houston Texas​

Carthage Gas Field​

​

Exxon Production Co. East, New Orleans​

West Delta 73 Oil and Gas field​

You never worked in Louisiana. You don't know your way around it.
You never worked in the petroleum industry.
You never visited an oil drilling rig.
You never operated any instrument to search for oil.

Grok is not an employment history.

 

[Into the Night]

You're really stressed out and agitated about by career experiences

I've never even had a girlfriend as interested in the minutia of my work experiences as you and Moose are, LOL

What 'work experience'? You are a pretender, Cyborg.

Nice self potrait.

 

[Into the Night]

They need a return to relevance rather than revolution.

That doesn't look like it's in their cards these days. Democrats are becoming more and more radical.
Because radical vs radical always occurs, Democrats are also internally fighting within themselves.

You can see that on JPP as well.

 

[Into the Night]

Education broadens you. You learn art, history, science and many other things that make you more aware of how the world became what it is. Trump define and think of college as a publicly supported apprenticeships for Corporations.

You deny history.
You deny theories of science.
You deny what is.
You deny English.
College is not an apprenticeship.

Illiteracy: Double verb.

 

[Hume]

Question: Does that "broaden(ing)" provide a means to pay off your student loans?

tee hee hee!!!!!

 

[Cypress]

You never worked in Louisiana! You never worked in the petroleum industry! You never visited an oil drilling rig!
You never operated any instrument to search for oil!

. ftfy

 

[Into the Night]

Question: Does that "broaden(ing)" provide a means to pay off your student loans?

tee hee hee!!!!!

I guess it doesn't. He's trying to laugh his way out of it.

 

[Into the Night]

. ftfy

Fixed what? You are just pretending, Cyborg. That is YOUR problem.