“society has come to place too high a value on intellectual acumen”
Uhh, WHERE?! All I see is the fawning over HWood, athletes and the boobs on the boob tube.
Please direct me where you see great time, $$$ and mentality is given to a teacher, scientist, etc. instead of knowing, on a dime, every stat for the XYZ team.
Sorry, but last I’ve seen Michael Vick was given a standing O when returning to the field.
A fellow on some thread (I think it was the Politico site) posted a comment to some article a few weeks back.
He lamented the state of the United States white male. He said something like:
'I am disgusted by my fellow white guys at work and in my neighborhood. All they do is obsess on sports, giving their hard earned dollars to make little Trayvons rich, memorizing and spewing out useless statistics, and playing "fantasy" sports for months on end. They argue incessantly about how games would be won if people only listened to their intimate knowledge of every player and every game. It is beyond a waste of time. Meanwhile, their companies, families, and nation are crumbling around them.'
Plenty of people I know, including most of my family.
There’s also the emphasis in schools on college. Pretty much gone are the days of building trades, auto mechanics, and other trades.
Now if you want even a chance at a decent job, you have to have at least a BA and even that isn’t good enough. Now, since so many people have finished college, a masters is the thing to have.