The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
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Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#2The less polite original title: "The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid Is Your Liberal Arts Degree".
Unfair since plenty of those with liberal arts degrees contribute to society in a way we geeks value, but still amusing.
Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#3The same joke over and over.
Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#4The same joke over and over.
It's still true.
Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#5Do we really need physicists? What have they done apart from give us ever increasing ways of destroying ourselves. Has quantum theory brought happiness to the world? Love? Peace? Has it helped you feel more connected to your neighbours, to the person on the bus or tube? Has it had any meaningful positive effect at all on the human condition?
Or is it and its ilk of science degrees merely a relentless march to the day that the whole world disappears in one of two ways, self-annihilation or self-exile in VR?
And even if we survive somehow, what about once the relentless march of science is over, when there are no more secrets to uncover? What next? Is that the end of meaningful life as this author thinks?
Or is there perhaps something more to life than finding the next equation? Perhaps we will put aside the toys of technology and start reflecting on ourselves.
Maybe by doing a liberal arts degree.
Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#6Do we really need physicists? What have they done apart from give us ever increasing ways of destroying ourselves. Has quantum theory brought happiness to the world? Love? Peace? Has it helped you feel more connected to your neighbours, to the person on the bus or tube? Has it had any meaningful positive effect at all on the human condition? Or is it and its ilk of science degrees merely a relentless march to the day…
Pretty much everyone I love is alive and healthy today because of science. I myself am alive and healthy today because of science.
Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#7Do we really need physicists? What have they done apart from give us ever increasing ways of destroying ourselves. Has quantum theory brought happiness to the world? Love? Peace? Has it helped you feel more connected to your neighbours, to the person on the bus or tube? Has it had any meaningful positive effect at all on the human condition? Or is it and its ilk of science degrees merely a relentless march to the day…
Haha, good one. I had prepared a rather sharp reply, but just before hitting the reply button I figured this is just some awesome trolling... Right?
I hope so!
Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#8Don't you understand? We're not really learning how to critique The Bell Jar from a absurdorealist point of view, we're learning how to use our minds!
Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#9Re: The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree
#10There's a flaw in assuming that an undergraduate liberal arts education is terminal. For instance, "between 1986 and 1995, more people earning PhD degrees in the earth sciences graduated from Carleton (50) than any other four-year college."
And that's from a tiny liberal arts school with a total population of ~2,000 students.