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Wouter's avatar

If you want to be perceived as smart and interesting, there exists a very old trick: be (and act) humble and curious:)

A. Reader's avatar

"... All progress depends on the unreasonable man."

Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch's avatar

Nice description of this exceedingly strange ritual.

(Also: "don’t pull a Minneapolis-ICE-officer all over some poor workaday creep" 💀.)

Yosef's avatar

האקלים עשה את האדם ישר והם בקשו חשבונות רבות.

This seems relevant. Also, isn't a big part of the mission of any college to intellectualize and overanalyze things?

This overwrought deconstruction of something quite obvious to most people is basically a standard complaint about colleges.

It has some merit.

Ari Shtein's avatar

Well, I'd be fine if someone were teaching a one-off seminar on this, but it's a mandatory training! Evil.

Yosef's avatar

Yeah, but people need to pad their resumes.

So they create things like this.

And other people also need to pad their resumes, so they staff things like this.