Posted by alexandra_k on March 20, 2015, at 22:27:13
In reply to Re: i think 'suits' got better, posted by alexandra_k on March 20, 2015, at 20:51:28
And I don't understand how people can't tell the difference between an organised lecture and a disorganised lecture. I don't understand how people can't tell that it has taken an awful lot of work for bio guy to manage to get a whole chapter of a textbook down into 50 minutes. I don't understand why people aren't cranky at the guy who turns a chapter of a texbook (that he wrote like, 20 years ago) into a two week production with so much woffle it's... criminal...
I don't understand how people can't tell the right answer when they see it. Or can't tell a good explanation from a bad explanation. I mean, seriously, with group work. I can tell them 'I'm certain that B is the right answer because A and D are blah (not the answer) and C is wrong because of z... And they don't get it... Even when that's the exact same thing the tutor says to them later... Or in writing down explanations... They really can't tell good explanations from bad explanations...
I don't understand how they can't at least see that they can't see the difference. That that would act as motivation... For them to try and persuade someone who can see the difference to perhaps help / lead them. They can't even seem to come to that conclusion...
I...
Most people... Really are rather a lot more like animals than we (academics) often suppose... I think... That is true. Don't get me wrong I think that animal rights need to be far more advanced than we take them to be at present... But I really do think that the significant majority of people out there really aren't able to get the whole symbolic thing...
The significant majority of people basically are illiterate when it comes to taking literal meaning out of text... Repeating back what content there was in the text... Most people use language like birds use their cooing.... It's about social affiliation or it's a territorial gesture or it's playful or it's consoling or it's... Whatever it is... There isn't any point listening to the actual literal content because from that point of view it is simply rubbish.
The future of healthcare... The thought seems to be that we want these coo-y people (we say they are verbally inclined and have good social skills) to be the future of healthcare for the masses. The masses who wouldn't know clinical competence vs incompetence if it... Killed them. Literally. Clinical competence is like... Literal meaning. Completely besides the point of... Completely besides any point that they are capable of understanding...
That's what makes it okay to give them to people who have to have to have to have to help them (who take much delight in getting to 'help' people who are too sick to get away)... It helps reduce demand for services... Helps people feel that they must feel appreciative of services they get (because clinicians will retailiate if they feel they aren't sufficiently appreciated for 'after everything I"ve done for you!!!'...
Meanwhile.... 11x22 people sitting on boards of directors earning far more than the average salary. politicians driving around the country on limousines flying for free... no money for the front line of health care when we have to fund happy hour cocktails for ministry government workers on a friday to keep up staff morale... clearly the wastage in healthcare comes from doctors overprescribing and overtreating and isn't at all about all the money that managers and board members syphon off first...
it is kinda crap.
the system... doesn't make a difference. it's the corruption within the system, methinks. Changing the system... is just another excuse for spending money on something that is a complete waste of time.
It is pretty sh*t.
On one sense... I feel bad for the masses who are being screwed over... By people who are... Probably just as inept and unfocused as they... On the one hand I feel empathy...
On the other... When I realise that these people would rather crap up all my time with crap to make it such that I can't get away (even do what they can to make me believe I can't do whatever it is that would have me get away)... Would happily keep me in the sh*t hole with them... When there are so many hundreds or thousands of people already keepling them company...
When they wouldn't listen to me if i stayed... Because they are unable to hear the voice of reason...
It seems like all they want to do is drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator. Is that really what 'equity' means... Because it starts to feel like it. Because other people won't... I'm not allowed.
I think... I do need money to gate myself away from them. I think... That's life. People don't like to speak of it, but there it is.
I would like money to get out of the city one day. Similar to what I've got now... But somewhere more gated, yeah. I don't want to hear drunk homeless people sqwaking at each other at 3am. Or at any time of the day, really. It messes up my sleep / interferes with my functioning... Things don't inevitably track the money.. But they sorta do... Money to get people to back off... That's the thing. Money to make people when they won't listen. Money is power. Huh. Guess people figured that out however long ago...
I never got it because most people think money is power to have other people do what you want (do stuff for you) and I thought there would be nothing much worse than sycophantic brought friends. But now I see the value of money is the power to buy solitude. Yeah. Huh.
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