Brilliance != Success

[american_arcane]

Like a good number of you who wander through this blog, I grew up as one of the smart kids

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[cityofspheres]

OK, I didn't actually bother reading the article, but what a bunch of conservative, chauvinist bullshit. The 20's were cooler than a lot of preceding and subsequent decades, but this article, or at least your summary of it, reads like it's straight out of the Dark Ages. I'm glad its author is most likely dead already; unfortunately, this sort of thinking lives on. Sorry if my expression of disapproval is strongly worded; a lot of this article summary is word for word my parents crap and my own internalized version of it that helped keep me fucking miserable for the first 25 years of my life. Especially points 1 and 2. And apply all this to the dating scene, as well, not just employment. I dunno what I hate worse, this health plus money shite, or Christianity.

[american_arcane]

And those are, indeed, some of the points I'd really like to dig more in to... :)

It often amazes me just how much the dating scene and business discussions can over lap. (Of course, that has been fodder for a good many sitcom sequences over the years...)

[american_arcane]

It's those levels of interpretation that I really want to get in to.

Reading old stuff, I automatically make a whole lot of allowances for the thought patterns of the time. Sometimes, even those allowances aren't enough to forgive some ideas. But more often than not, behind the outdated bits and between the dusty prose, there are gems that stay strong and sharp through time.

[panthergirl]

Funny how hiring practices haven't much changed, yes?

[american_arcane]

So many things haven't changed quite as much as we're often led to believe.

And then there's other things... you know, the ones that never quite were the way people try to tell us they were.