Comments on: Ruminations on my English Major

By: Illuminate

Illuminate — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 05:09:04 +0000

You go… I’ll stay here and hold down the fort in normalville. Being imaginative, and being unrealistically liberal are two very different things… though, I think I would drop by Woodstock 2006, that sounds like it could be exciting. So I guess you’re right. No need for creativity in this exciting world. Who needs live entertainment and original creativity when we can stare our computer screens at work, our TV screens at home and our cell phone screens anywhere else? Liberal arts are pointless. We need no balance… technology balances itself… Have fun in your technological cubical for the next 40 years Dilbert. I’ll let you know how Woodstock goes.

By: Captain Amazing

Captain Amazing — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:45:26 +0000

I concede. The human race is faced with bleak prospectives. Certainly we are doomed to a future ruled by robots and A.I. They say that the only thing evil needs to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing. I say we throw off the shackles of technology in an attempt to save the world… for our childrens sake. Let us ban together by riding our lives of cell phones, computers and televisions. Perhaps we could stop showering and grow our hear long into dreadlocks. Let us move to California and become attracted in the same sex. Maybe we could all join green peace and petition to save the whales. I can already hear the sweet melody of Woodstock 2006! Our slogan will be “Make love, not robots!” Is any one with me? Stand up and be counted!

By: Illuminate

Illuminate — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:59:35 +0000

I, on the other hand, agree with the aforementioned author. One thing that is being slowly replaced in our mainstream, mass-producing society is, well… us. With the increase in technology, super computers, and mass producing equipment we are rendering ourselves, slowly but surely, useless. I believe that the day will arrive that the monotonous, tedious, sweat-shop jobs will no longer exist. Manual labor will be minimal. Machines will take over these less preferenced jobs. The ‘blue collar worker’ will not be in such a demand. The escape from this threat, I believe, will be creativity. The imagination is something the human possesses that a machine does not. Machines do not act, they do not create, they do not perform unless otherwise programmed to do so by their creator. The answer to success in the future lies within the creative base of the liberal arts… the imaginers, not the thinkers. Imagination is power.

By: Captain Amazing

Captain Amazing — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:32:23 +0000

Undoubtedly, the author of said newspaper article was also a liberal arts major. If the adage is true he (or dare I say, she) was doing his best to earn his humble paycheck. Unfortunately his biases are glaring. Likely he was recently informed that by the end of the year his job would be in jeopardy due to the exponentionally decreasing readership of the paper he represents. It seems that the only people that read the opinion section are english majors who are taking advantage of their respective schools, or parents, subscription to the paper and because of their educational choices will never really be able to afford a subscription after they graduate. Personally I believe that they realize they are a bit, shall we say, cheap. Long live the analytical mind, down with the USSR, and may you hippie liberal artists oneday see the light.