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I often think of Paul Lockhart's line: Many a graduate student has come to grief when they discover, after a decade of being told they were "good at math," that in fact they have no real mathematical talent and are just very good at following directions.
The impulse to try to protect Kamala Harris by deeming all criticism of her either sexist or racist is going to set her up for spectacular failure. Slow-motion own goal unfolding.
Shades of Clinton, where pointing out that she's wooden in front of a crowd and loaded with Clinton era baggage was deemed unmentionably sexist, right up until she lost to the crude vulgarian with a runaway case of verbal dysentary.
The impulse to try to protect Kamala Harris by deeming all criticism of her either sexist or racist is going to set her up for spectacular failure. Slow-motion own goal unfolding.
Also diminishes smart kids unfamiliar with the ethos of the cultural elites and the smart homeschooled.
It's not just schools. I work for a bank and we only recruit a handful of elite schools. Kids come in with amazing looking resumes, but they aren't any smarter than "we" were 25 years ago. Everyone has learned to fake it.
To be clear: I went on to almost flunk out of Penn before once again getting religion, improving my GPA, and ending up as a largely functional adult who meets deadlines. Admitting kids with high SATs and low GPAs is a high-risk strategy ... but schools should take more such risks
Now, pleasing adults is a skill I probably should have mastered earlier and better ... but society needs its non-conformists, and our elite schools are systematically weeding them out.
What the Ivies have tended towards for generations now are "super conformers" -- straight As and spent all their time in adult extra-curriculars. People who spent all their time doing what authority wants. But in the past, they did seek out many of the very smartest, to.
I got in to Penn with a 2.7 GPA (though improving steadily throughout high school), & parents who couldn't afford to make donations. The weird smart kid who didn't do homework because they were too busy writing a novel was a definite character in the Ivies in my era. Not any more
What the Ivies have tended towards for generations now are "super conformers" -- straight As and spent all their time in adult extra-curriculars. People who spent all their time doing what authority wants. But in the past, they did seek out many of the very smartest, to.
On this day in 1966, Muhammad Ali knocked out Cleveland Williams. One of the best sports photos of all time, by the great @LeiferNeil
"2016 election. Rittenhouse. Covington. Russian collusion. Vaccines. Bounties on US soldiers. Lab-leak theory. Jussie Smollett. The Pulse shooting. The Atlanta shootings. Hunter Biden laptop. Inflation. Steele Dossier." All BS. An impressive list when Sullivan lays it out.
I'm sure in the near future, even dimly recalling that anything like this was said - or even linking to it- will be considered Russian disinformation.
Remember when a lot of people came out to write their instant-takes about how arson isn't violence, and then days later they pulled a dead body out of that burned building in Kenosha?
What must be going on behind scenes if they decided they had to put this out 9pm Sunday night?
The Fed has already acted differently this time. No way would a prior Fed have sat back while unemployment fell to 4.6% and core inflation rose to 4.6% and not even begun the tightening process.
Good thread. The thing about this crisis is that CBs went into it absolutely desperate to convince us they would behave differently this time. So my question is this: was that just bullshit? We are gonna find out soon enough..
One caveat: this is not CA, NY, NJ or IL where admission cost is prohibitive. R’s could throw a few $ at a competent candidate & hope environment is so favorable in fall 22 they have a real shot
Good thread. The thing about this crisis is that CBs went into it absolutely desperate to convince us they would behave differently this time. So my question is this: was that just bullshit? We are gonna find out soon enough..
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