re: Horrific story in Baton Rouge with new facts coming out

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Yep, and exponentially more so when you're looking at entry-level candidates.

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J/c - What do you guys consider the top entry-level feeder programs at present?

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In 1968, 40-60 y/o econ-fin instructors were far and away anti-Communist. It was Milton Friedman's time.

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Not in Europe, which is the specific 'May 68' reference I made in the first post.

It was also the period where Marxists attempted to 'math' their way out of their theoretical production issues. This little essay by Yanis Varoufakis highlights some of the pre-91 Marxist landscape, which was plagued by the inability to align production with demand perfectly. LINK

What I mean to say that there was a more clear delineation between Marxism as a sociological theory and its existence as a theory of political economy. I think there is only one major Marxist economist left.

As an aside, by the early 1980's, most countries who were influenced by Marxism gave up the 'mathematical' approach, and adopted largely market reforms, as China and Vietnam were two of the first, which was followed by India's market liberalization in 1991. That might be a convenient departure point for Marxism as a cultural entity and not a specific economic one.

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Yeah I'm a bad writer and I dislike the board's relative lack of interest in 20th century philosophy and history, which requires me to do a lot of background work instead of people having some familiarity with contemporary philosophy.

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I liked your theory about higher education.

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I liked your theory about higher education.

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We really did have something great and it produced things that were uniquely American. Large universities now seem to function like hedge funds rather than educational institutions, and I don't know for what real purpose. The St. John's College Liberal Arts curriculum would be my model if we could reorganize the entire education system to maximize talent. From a larger, geopolitical angle, the benefits of having a more free-form approach to education helps the US and the West more broadly. I'm not stuck to 20th century history of ideas other than being a pedant about who said what, but the proof is that the West is more creative in its problem-solving approach to major ideas, which becomes more meaningful in the smaller margins of international competition.

We largely do a very good job of letting talent select itself, but I fear if we let state interest (whatever form it takes) impede on creativity, the net loss will be significant. The internet does a good job of democratizing, but it does a terrible job of organizing ideas so that people feel connected to the history of those ideas. I think this is best exemplified by some statements by AI enthusiasts, who regard books and arts only by their consumer value, and not by their physical value. So AI reproduces things humans have previously made without any context.

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Yeah I'm a terrible writer, so I'm skeptical that anyone will actually read a bunch of posts on how Heidegger or Arendt or Gadamer, or the degree to which The Conservative Revolution was among the most important movements of the 20th century.

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Take one at a time

That'd also change things but the autopsy said .316 blood alcohol level and THC (pot).

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Re: "I sold my company a couple years ago" ... Congrats

Congrats, 1st off on owning your own company, and secondly for going thru the calculations of selling it. I can relate.

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Same to you.

Definitely a bittersweet process, but was able to essentially retire and take care of my people at the same time.

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My dad is a GT grad. He swears there isn't a better 4-yr engineering degree anywhere. I tease him about slide ruler calculations (the ones he used to compute our moonshots) no longer being the standard of comparison. But I love hearing GT is still up there.

Thanks.

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My CTO was an MIT guy. Whenever he gave me shite (frequently), I'd tell him I was going to send him to QA and bring in a GT grad for an upgrade.

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Same to you.

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Thx