Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Life plans

Why college (and, I would add, life) should be less about career preparation and more about intellectual stimulation:
I mean, seriously, look around you. They’re phasing out the concept of a “job” little by little anyway — you owe it to yourself, to your fellow temps, and to your online dating profile to at least be a halfway interesting person.

2 comments:

  1. Another from Kierkegaard ...

    "Over the years an individual may abandon the little bit of passion, feeling, imagination, the little bit of inwardness he had and embraces as a matter of course an understanding of life in trivialities. This improved condition ... he now in despair considers a good thing; he easily reassures himself that now it could never occur to him to despair - no, he has secured himself. But he is in despair, devoid of spirit and in despair."

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  2. I'm so sick of hearing about the humanities "crisis" and the bleak job market (seriously, it comes up every friggin' day). I often feel like I'm the only one in the department who's just here for the hell of it. It's not like I have other mouths to feed.

    Btw, Julia, are you going to check out Kotsko's "Awkwardness"?

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