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7. But the market is just booming for performance artists and historians?

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 07:10 PM

Oct 2014

"History" these days is called I Love the '80s on VH1. "English literature" is Fifty Shades of Grey. "Art" is Photoshop memes. "Music" is whatever Top 40 hipster pap is popular on YouTube. "Social sciences" is Facebook tweaking your emotions and giving you the sads.

Meanwhile, some guy just started a "private Facebook" called Ello that's valued in the hundreds of millions. I don't see those kind of returns for sociology majors or ballet dancers. You're not going to have money to buy food if you bother with this intellectual fluff at the expense of 21st-century skills.

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STEM is incredibly valuable, but if we want the best innovators we must teach the arts [View all] antigop Oct 2014 OP

never fails to disgust me that the arts are not considered valuable, despite the studies niyad Oct 2014 #1

ALSO RadicalGeek Oct 2014 #2

I wish I had the brain for it. I wish -- for my life -- that I did. Ampersand Unicode Oct 2014 #5

The STEM acronym is sorta outdated anyway. enki23 Oct 2014 #3

But the market is just booming for performance artists and historians? Ampersand Unicode Oct 2014 #7

hey, nobody flies on only one wing! up with interdisciplinarity! nt MisterP Oct 2014 #4

Fuck liberal arts. Bring back shop class. Ampersand Unicode Oct 2014 #6