How can I get people to read my blog?

[KrazyHorse]

Note his claim that he received some kind of elite education doing nonsense subjects at a mediocre school. Now he's teaching elementary/high school, and will likely drift from one such low-value job to another. He will continue to grow more frustrated with the lack of status these jobs impart him, and will become more and more convinced that his failures are due to society valuing the "wrong things".

[davidwillson]

I'm not entirely sure that the world needs another foaming-at-the-mouth right-wing blog, but the question you really need to ask yourself is "Is yet another cookie-cutter rant actually of interest to anyone?".

America at war ... Decline .... Family ... disintegrated ... multiculturalism ... liberal ... blah .. blah

Tits. Felch and Thoth are wise men. CH usually is, too, but he kind of missed the bus on this one. Though if you're not going to have tits, not blogging at all probably is the next best option.

[Darius871]

Unless anyone here claims to have successfully replicated capitalism in a test tube, I refuse to accept that politics can be studied as a science.

Well in all fairness, somewhere near the middle of the 20th century there were some people trying to graft to the field a submission of data derived from actual, observable political behaviors to high-level statistical analysis and reaching replicable conclusions in a manner approximating the scientific method, but then the postmodernist, anti-positivist fruitcakes steamrollered over the whole thing from the 70's on and turned it into another silly offshoot of filosofizing. The only thing remotely resembling political "scientists" today might be pollsters and poll analysts, but they're better labeled statisticians.

[KrazyHorse]

Some public choice economists are pretty close...

[Kuciwalker]

Actually, I majored in Poli Sci and English. But I did take some Econ courses as well as a few Poli Ec courses that I put a lot of effort into. Carnegie Mellon is a good school for the math and sciences, but objectively speaking, it's just not as competitive as Swarthmore.

Kid, it dosn't matter how 'comptetitive' your school is if its measuring something useless.

Carnegie Mellon grads are, on average, more intelligent than Swarthmore grads: FACT.

[Kuciwalker]

I have to admit the prestige factor of Harvard was very difficult to turn down, but I would have gotten a terrible education there. Getting taught by TA's, being surrounded by slackers, and having no academic culture at my school (other than make connections and succeed in business or politics) did not appeal to me.

it mattered to you who taught your lectures? You went to lectures?

[DaShi]

OMFG, you ****.



You did a degree in POLITICAL SCIENCE and ENGLISH at SWARTHMORE and you think you got an elite education? You have got to be ****ting me.

And he could have gotten the same education at Harvard and at least have had people look at his resume for it.

Although, I did take a creative writing class at the Harvard Summer School for fun and have to admit that the teacher was quite knowledgeable and brought it to a higher level than you'd get at workshops taught by English majors from Swarthmore. We also had some really impressive writers in there. I was ****.

[Kuciwalker]

What's really bizarre is claiming that he could have been making more money than KH by... getting KH's job.

[KrazyHorse]

Well, first off he couldn't have gotten my job, period. Quant work is well outside his capabilities.

And he would have had a lot of trouble even getting a reasonably good job on the street. Maybe he could have gotten some BOMW job if he got lucky...

[Darius871]

Well, first off he couldn't have gotten my job, period. Quant work is well outside his capabilities.

You're not of a mind that maybe with an educational track not so wasteful and an alma mater not so ignorable he might not have become the halfwit we see today? To me, the mere fact that he can produce such immense walls of text at will (albeit with little substance and faulty analysis where there is substance) suggests not so much stupidity as some combination of wasted potential and mental illness.

FWIW, Curtis, would you care to lay your IQ out on the table (or if you never had one - and I mean a real one - conducted, at least an ACT or SAT score) so we could have a picture of your intellectual capacity before Swarthmore had its way with it? I'm genuinely curious.

[Hauldren Collider]

I have to admit the prestige factor of Harvard was very difficult to turn down, but I would have gotten a terrible education there. Getting taught by TA's, being surrounded by slackers, and having no academic culture at my school (other than make connections and succeed in business or politics) did not appeal to me.

it mattered to you who taught your lectures? You went to lectures?

You didn't go to lectures? I talked to other CMU students and they tell me this is a bad idea.

[KrazyHorse]

You're not of a mind that maybe with an educational track not so wasteful and an alma mater not so ignorable he might not have become the halfwit we see today? To me, the mere fact that he can produce such immense walls of text at will (albeit with little substance and faulty analysis where there is substance) suggests not so much stupidity as some combination of wasted potential and mental illness.

Quant work requires a very special set of capabilities, many of which cannot be taught to any but a very small number of people.

[Hauldren Collider]

You're not of a mind that maybe with an educational track not so wasteful and an alma mater not so ignorable he might not have become the halfwit we see today? To me, the mere fact that he can produce such immense walls of text at will (albeit with little substance and faulty analysis where there is substance) suggests not so much stupidity as some combination of wasted potential and mental illness.

Quant work requires a very special set of capabilities, many of which cannot be taught to any but a very small number of people.

I bet he can add. Better watch out, your job is on the line KH.

[Al B. Sure!]

curtis, don't take the above comments to heart. Swarthmore is a good school and while you didn't study the greatest or most productive thing in the world, you studied something that interests you and you have something that less than 30% of Americans have: a college degree, and from Swarthmore at that. Anyone normal would be impressed by that.

Somewhere along the line, both KH and Kuci lost all humility (although, I don't believe Kuci ever had it) and now just want to put down everyone they deem their intellectual inferior for some really absurd things (like laughing at someone's college education) and by saying some douchey things that I'm really surprised other posters don't take issue with (such as comments that they will make more money than someone every year of their lives). Also, they've somehow come to the conclusion that intelligence used to make money is the ultimate measure of a man, which should be prima facie ridiculous and is more morally ignoble than anything you've said.

I'm a bit disgusted that others have joined in these personal attacks on curtis. As much as people may dislike his beliefs or believe him a joke, that does not excuse mockery of curtis the individual. Curtis didn't initiate this and yet he is the one being attacked, not those who made comments about they'll make more money than him every year of their lives, a comment which I personally find very stinging and inappropriate for a civil forum. I would expect it from the Gordon Gecko clique but from everyone else?

Let's get some normal perspective here... assuming everything curtis says is true, he's a poor boy from the deep South who got a degree from Swarthmore. Since when is that something to be mocked instead of applauded? You are no longer even responding to his points in any way but just putting him down. Have all of you lost your god damn minds?

[Kuciwalker]

Albert Speer defending a Nazi. Typical.