Today the New School is dominant, if you believe Jeantel and the Bro Choicers.
According to Jeantel, the jury looked at facts, and the jury, well, they are old school. She and Trayvon are New Schoolers which one apparently must take to mean illiterate and not fact-oriented.
And Bro Choice? Killing one’s progeny is just the ticket for “getting some tail”.
To top it off, Asperger’s is no longer a clinical category; if you had it, now you don’t. But don't worry, it's still a staple on TV.
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If you don't watch the bro-choice video I'll sum up:
A douchey conservative videographer asked a bunch of frat douchebags and sorority girls at America's #3 party university a loaded question about abortion and edited the responses.
To top it off, Asperger’s is no longer a clinical category; if you had it, now you don’t.
Or maybe you are just on the upper end of the autism spectrum disorder.
You could be grateful that the layman no longer call it "Engineer’s Disease"... well, except for PBS.
http://cdn.wrongplanet.net/postxf45209-0-0.html&sid=f89071380a5650ff7f3b4f604441e750
Interesting, Tom,
I spent my entire career as an engineer. If one cannot communicate, and even empathize with the issues others have, one will not survive in engineering. There are very few singleton engineers; most work in teams which include many more non-engineers than engineers, including marketers, manufacturing folks, customers, etc.
Scientists, on the other hand, especially in academia, are limited in their interactions with people outside their own discipline, unless they go out of their way to interact.
Brilliance is not associated exclusively with asperger's. Einstein and Feynman come to mind. So asperger's is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for the possession of an analytic, incisive mind.
Another liberal mascot (per Thomas Sowell) gets an inordinate amount of media air time simply because she fits the narrative that the media is pushing. Facts?! Who gives a damn about facts? I predicted to my family that if the Zimmerman verdict was "Not Guilty" then the DOJ would begin an immediate civil rights violation prosecution AND that Trayvon Martin's family would file a civil suit against Zimmerman. WAKE UP, PEOPLE! YOU are not safe from the over-reaches of Big Government, regardless of your color, gender, religion, sexual preference, age, or any of the myriad "special categories" carved out as exceptions. The prevailing USA philosophy (or, more correctly, absence thereof) is based on emotion, not on facts and logic and reason. It is not surprising that young males (of all colors) walk around looking like a four-year old with a diaper full of crap; they also are walking around with a mind full of crap which mentally sags just like their pants. They are impervious to reason because they have been taught by example that reason doesn't get them what they want. (Yes, that's a stereotypical jaundiced viewpoint--reinforced as I work every day around and with them.) And how did they come to this post-modern (is that an oxymoron?) anti-rationalist philosophy of life? WE, the supposedly "adults" of the Boomer Generation, taught them through our own actions, through our endorsement of dumbed-down education, and our never-ending desire to get something for nothing.
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