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Post by marchesarosa on Aug 8, 2013 18:33:58 GMT 1
I'm looking to fill a couple of vacancies in my house at the moment and came across this room wanted ad on Gumtree. "Hi, we're looking for 2 rooms in a friendly shared house. We're a couple, Rosie (23, starting her masters in activism & social change in Leeds in Sept) and Morison (25, self-employed musician), and we are looking for a nice friendly shared house to live in for a year whilst Rosie does her masters..." The accompanying photo is to die for! www.gumtree.com/p/flats-houses/looking-for-2-rooms-in-a-friendly-shared-house/1027861565/galleryWhatever next! They'll be off down to Balcombe this weekend, I expect, to do a little "fieldwork" at the protest "camp". Thus does a value system receive the imprimatur of scientific rigour and the blessing of academe! I sincerely hope it is an MA she will be getting and not an MSc. !
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Post by marchesarosa on Aug 9, 2013 8:53:35 GMT 1
A not unrelated comment I found on Bishop Hill today. A huge number of people (me included) start off on the left in their 20s and drift off to the right as they experience the real world. The wisdom of self-awareness comes along with this process.
This explains how lefties can sit in the bottom-left square (climate concerned + lefty) and psycho-analyse people in the top-right square (climate skeptic + conservative). The lefties do not even realise they are in a square - they think they are objective observers sitting on the truth. They have no self-awareness at all. They do not realise that their own worldview is just one of many possible worldviews. That takes wisdom.
The big problem with the universities is they keep people infantilised in their lefty-20-something phase for longer than is healthy.
Aug 7, 2013 at 12:08 PM | Jack Hughes
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Post by alancalverd on Aug 20, 2013 0:47:42 GMT 1
It's not a problem! It is the intended purpose of the most recent extension of university education to include more than 50% of the population. The alternative is youth unemployment, which is bad press and a cost to the taxpayer. Far better to keep the kids of the street until they are 21, then charge them interest on their loans. Who cares what they think or how they vote? We are governed by unelected foreigners, and the more lefty fringe candidates we have at election time, the more secure each inherited safe Tory seat becomes.
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