They can only become more Insane At Hahvud. Dumbest school in the country with the best Faux Pedigree
They may be have IT smarts but they’re dumb as rocks in common sense. As is the liberal half of the country.
His premise is stupid. It doesn’t matter what kind of education or not the Silicon Valley elitists have; they still think they deserve to manage the whole world. A humanities degree would not help.
I heard a direct quote from a higher-up that is telling of their mindset: “We’re the only ones who can make the world better.”
If Bezos or The Zuck run for office, this is what they are stoked on in their echo chamber.
“It never seems to have occurred to them that their advertising engines could also be used to deliver precisely targeted ideological and political messages to voters.”
Yeah, unlike all the daily rags and Slime magazine, Newsweak, and all the alphabet networks.
How dare anyone infringes on their propaganda monopoly!
Even though I’m no elitist, and I think most college degrees are very overrated, I do think that they are half-educated. Dropping out off college is hardly a badge of honor or success.
As Allan Bloom would say in his Closing of the American Mind, these university-trained dolts are trained for careers, which falls far short of a true education.
> Like these people would be any smarter staying in college.
Not staying in college wasn’t their main educational problem, but was consistent with it.
They had a very poor foundation laid in primary school, or they would not have become such unbalanced people to begin with.
They don’t have a proper appreciation for Christendom and what I’ll call the American way for short.
And their success went to their heads.
Gates is flaky leftist but he’s the most sane of the bunch.
As a consequence, the new masters of our universe are people who are essentially only half-educated. They have had no exposure to the humanities or the social sciences, the academic disciplines that aim to provide some understanding of how society works, of history and of the roles that beliefs, philosophies, laws, norms, religion and customs play in the evolution of human culture.
He is correct that many tech giants focused on technology, and where he says without proper study of humanities, he should say: "character and spiritual formation."
“He should know that college is half a waste of time and half, a four year drink fest.”
You obviously weren’t in my classes.
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They have no problem with isis, al queda and child pornograpbers using their tech.
They just didn't expect those Conservative populist rubes to be so clever.
If they had gone to college 200 years ago, they WOULD have something like an education.
These billionaire geeks think they have the wisdom to rule the world, because the EU totalitarians, the Pope, etc., flatter them.
Well, Doctor Frankenstein lived to regret his efforts too.
Not to worry, a nice pot of cash, dropped on the college, will earn them an honorary degree.
There is something to be said for a traditional liberal education that would have provided a better background in political totalitarianism and history.
However, with political totalitarianism itself having taken over most liberal arts departments at most colleges, that would not now be such a great solution.
That's what scares me.
It never seems to have occurred to them that their advertising engines could also be used to deliver precisely targeted ideological and political messages to voters.
It seems like the author of this article is a little dim.
His argument has an origin he leaves unnamed; the Russians stole the election for Trump.
It is case he heard in the Media and as it fit his own bias he took it, like religious convictions, as gospel truth.
Yet careful examination of the facts shows that the level and breadth of Russian interjections into the media & social media spheres, was minuscule compared to the massive input from both Billary, Inc. & Trump campaigns, the DNC & RNC, all the two parties other election campaigns, all the myriad American political organizations, pacs, publications and web versions of publications, as well as what all of them did on social media, as well as the American TV networks and news organizations. Collectively they make the “Russian” interjections look like an ant climbing an elephant. I doubt the elephant even noticed.
I agree with him that many of our ‘tech billionaires’ are seriously out of touch. But the problem has as much to do WITH the collage education instead of without it. These guys are ‘half educated’ because the ONLY got college education and then someone handed them billions for some well timed ideas. They never had to work hard in the real world and never got any of that practical experience.
So they actually think stupid crap like package delivering drones makes sense.
People would be better off if they read Socrates, Polybius, Cicero, de Tocqueville, Burke, Elliot, Mill... Unfortunately, most “liberal arts” majors do not do so.