I don't get it

[maevele]

when educated people are pig ignorant about lives other than their own. Do they just not know anyone not just like them, or do they just not pay attention? Because I am a dropout. I should have an excuse to be ignorant. and sometimes I am. I don't have formal training in critical thinking, or other's cultures, or any of it. So if I can see how your educated, sophisticated intellectual ass is hanging out, what's your excuse?


I guess it must be either only knowing people like themselves, or not paying attention. If it is the first, how does that happen without *trying* to recuse yourself from the "others?" Are most people's surroundings much more homogenous? Is madison wisconsin some extreme example of melting pot diversity? I'd think just being at college would have given these people a chance to interact with people who are not just like them in all ways.

And if it is the second, how do you get by in life without noticing the lives of other people around you? Do you only ignore those different from you, or everyone? And how do you fit in to the world around you if you ignore so many people?

Is there some complexity here that explains why my alleged "betters" don't get other people?

Comments

[kynn.livejournal.com]

lol no, honey

and interacting doesn't mean you learn or listen or care

[maevele.livejournal.com]

I still don't get it then.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that the neocons have paid very large $alarie$ and many other perk$ including actual employment with large $alarie$ and health in$urance, and even publication of books underwritten by thinktanks and other in$titution$ funded by those they $erve. They have been providing college education and funding to the grave to these so-called intellectuals since Nixon.

This is why liberals, progressives, etc. are poor, most of all, don't own the media. Because the media is owned by those others. But liberals haven't funded themselve. Look at what a disaster Air America was -- the answer to rush limcheese. The Huffington Post? That's what there is. We are not funded by our own. We're often not even respected by our own. We're always told to do the work for the 'exposure,' as if intellectual and creative work works like the mumps.

Love, C.