…are all Jason Ardays.
I wish they’d stop calling people supporting DSA “highly educated.” They’re not educated at all; they’re indoctrinated. Educated people, particularly those without college degrees, couldn’t possibly believe the kind of nonsense that they spout.
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The problem goes far beyond academic fraud; there are no standards at all.
Sir, this phrase “They’re not educated at all; they’re indoctrinated.” needs to be sung from every rooftop.
These people are not our betters except in their own little minds.
A similar term I’ve used is “educated beyond his/her/its intelligence”.
Diplomas? We don’t need no stiking Diplomas!
Or maybe more appropriate:
Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts — and with no more brains than you have. But! They have one thing you haven’t got: a diploma.
Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universitatus Committeeatum E Pluribus Unum, I hereby confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D.”
“Th.D?”
“Er, Doctor of Thinkology”
I can still hear my High School Physics Teacher, Mr Wilson, saying that you can get a University Education at the local
Library, you just can’t get the piece of paper.
In the days before Einstein became the new model, “…with the thoughts that you’d be thinkin’ you could be another Lincoln…” Innocently not remembering that Lincoln was also an autodidact polymath. Are we/they a vanishing breed? Marx hoped so.
It feels like there are more of them than ever and the quality of their knowledge has expanded as the content internet has expanded.
You’re thinking of Data(r)epublican?
Any major handicap can lead to an autodidact polymath, if it doesn’t directly reduce capability. I have significant brain damage from neurological-impact diseases (FUO and pernicious anemia, to name two). My MLA showed islands of off-chart “genius” surrounded by areas where my performance was fifth percentile low (i.e., “retarded”). The test happened because the linguistics department at UNH wanted to know why my grades in Japanese were so high they had to take me off the curve. Otherwise, I would get an A, the Israeli kid would get a C, and everyone else would flunk. Turned out my facility for synthetic grammar was analogous to musical perfect pitch, which I also have. Should have seen me play the guitar with hands that are basically flippers!
I used to tell people I was an idiot savant. The savant writes science fiction novels, and the idiot is obsessed with pussy….
Hmmm, I’m just not seeing the problem. The university needs more neurodiversity, and clearly it’s severely lacking in pathological liars. /sarc
Add 1 to Rand Simbergs body count.
Yes, that’s right, imbecile, it’s my fault.
Hey you put ones on the Clintons ledger for less.