Posted on 03/10/2009 10:53:45 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Food for the brain cells….
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
A mix of facts and non-facts presented like facts (and also guesses that are close to lies) that utilizes the synchronization of images, beat and music to shut-off questioning of the narrative.
The quoted figures for births in India and China are guesses close to lies. I suspect the figure for music downloads is also a guess, but closer to a real fact. What one learns today as a freshman will not be obsolete by the senior year of graduation. New technologies and techniques do not except rarely obsolete the old. New things are made up of old things arranged in new ways, or presented in new ways, with almost nothing that hasn’t been known in some way before.
What is the whyfor of this video propaganda? To raise fear so that college tech programs will get more money? Likely. To encourage federal stimulus pouring into tech-academ? Yep. To reinforce “hire the recent graduate” and fire him in two years for being obsolete? Likely. (That cause the grads to borrow another 20K for another degree).
Sick. Unrealistic. Adds to the problem.
Delight, not fear best drives technical and science excellence.
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