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[gojiraeight]

It still surprises me that people have "bought in" to the extent they have regarding the cultural rhetoric. To be honest most of my life I never really gave a shit about things like that past a certain vague Gen-X frustration. It was only in the past couple of years that I began to think of it as the disease it is. And how pervasive it is

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[ascher]

You will be happy to know my friend that I am not like the other mommies.

[gojiraeight]

yeah first off if you were you'd probably be compelled to be defensive and obnoxious towards to me. But in the end I don't think anyone is just one thing or another. If I was really so cynical towards people I wouldn't even bother. The way I see it however is that their are very very few people who are living up to their potential(myself included). I know I've never met anyone who really is. Few really contribute to the betterment of things as well. A working or stay at home mom has just as much chance to contribute as any activist. As much as I hate the suburban SUV soccer mom world in the end I really believe that putting another person into the world just increases our chances of achieving some really spectacular things. You never know who the next MLK Jr or Einstein will be. But than you never know who the next Dahmer or Hitler is LOL. So despite the resource strain and the problems with overcrowding I don't think their is anything wrong with reproducing. But this might be the only time I admit it.

[heratyck]

Your post made me think of this song...

[gojiraeight]

I love that style of Hip Hop

[acertainflower]

One thing that bothers me in this country is the system of education- in terms of the way it dumbs things down. That you have to have a BA in something to have any real career prospects or respect- when it is ultimately becoming more and more of a useless and pointless degree. Unfortunately, a lot of career-tracks are based in BA-MA-PHD/MD tracks. I spent four years in college for a BA in psych, only to spend another whole year getting a useless MA which ended up feeling like a condensed repeat of those first four years. Only now, that I have the MA can I start training for what I want to be doing

[gojiraeight]

well I certainly agree that the education system needs a major overhaul. But the issue is not in degree applicability. The real issue is in appreciating the wide spectrum of what "intelligence" is, in developing new ways to teach and appreciating other aspects of human endeavor beyond the worship of so called "left brain" pursuits. Fact of the matter is that society programs us that the reason for education is so we have a stable job and mean something to society and not for learning for it's own sake. Later in life I plan to spend a lot of time just getting degrees with no real interest in how it might increase my economic status