Thanks, Paul. An affirmation as to what we do. I just submitted a new piece on British poet Lord Byron "Mad, bad and dangerous to know." I'm currently submitting it to various literary journals. Fun to write, fun to read.
The Case for Fewer Writers and More Vocational Education:
I know the following may make me sound like an elitest pain in the ass. If you disagree, please don’t call me a bastard. Instead, try to refute me.
Although I love the 60’s, it was an era with an abundance of silly, frilly thoughts that have no basis in the real world
Among other things, that’s when people started to say everyone should go to college and everyone was really an artist. (In the 1950’s, leading educators in the Anglo-American world held that fully 85 percent of the populace was wholly unsuited for college because they simply lacked the raw IQ)
There are millions of people who work with their hands who do much more important work, and millions of people should put down their pens, and end their futile efforts to sound oh so artistically awesome, and should go to vocational school.
We need more people who know how to properly eradicate mold and other environmental toxins from property.
We need more people who will work with elderly people. In Japan, because of their collapsing birth rate, elderly people are so alone that they are given robots, animated with AI, to keep them company. Phony affection. It is so fucking disgusting I think it merits the annihilation of our soulless modern world in toto.
We need more people who can grout a bathtub, roast a chicken, do an oil change.
Ideas and images and whimsical flights of fancy may be fantastic. But we can’t house ourselves, or eat, or treat our illnesses with ideas (Unless they have been concretized into real physical devices and remedies) and images and whimsical flights of fancy.
Wow! The way he/she set this out is pretty amazing. It’s like a Uni paper. Except for the comments🤣
So much info...so little time...
This was awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, Paul. An affirmation as to what we do. I just submitted a new piece on British poet Lord Byron "Mad, bad and dangerous to know." I'm currently submitting it to various literary journals. Fun to write, fun to read.
https://jimgeschke.substack.com/p/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-know
Nice...will check it out!
The Case for Fewer Writers and More Vocational Education:
I know the following may make me sound like an elitest pain in the ass. If you disagree, please don’t call me a bastard. Instead, try to refute me.
Although I love the 60’s, it was an era with an abundance of silly, frilly thoughts that have no basis in the real world
Among other things, that’s when people started to say everyone should go to college and everyone was really an artist. (In the 1950’s, leading educators in the Anglo-American world held that fully 85 percent of the populace was wholly unsuited for college because they simply lacked the raw IQ)
There are millions of people who work with their hands who do much more important work, and millions of people should put down their pens, and end their futile efforts to sound oh so artistically awesome, and should go to vocational school.
We need more people who know how to properly eradicate mold and other environmental toxins from property.
We need more people who will work with elderly people. In Japan, because of their collapsing birth rate, elderly people are so alone that they are given robots, animated with AI, to keep them company. Phony affection. It is so fucking disgusting I think it merits the annihilation of our soulless modern world in toto.
We need more people who can grout a bathtub, roast a chicken, do an oil change.
Ideas and images and whimsical flights of fancy may be fantastic. But we can’t house ourselves, or eat, or treat our illnesses with ideas (Unless they have been concretized into real physical devices and remedies) and images and whimsical flights of fancy.
I'll have to check him out, too. I have a lot to read:)