{"id":12351,"date":"2010-06-22T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:38:16","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-two-if-we-are-wise-and-if-we-are-lucky-we-wont-meet-the-new-boss-because-there-wont-be-any-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12351\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-two-if-we-are-wise-and-if-we-are-lucky-we-wont-meet-the-new-boss-because-there-wont-be-any-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be cheerful, Part two: If we are wise, and if we are lucky, we won’t “meet the new boss” because there won’t be<\/em> any bosses."},"content":{"rendered":"

Watch this:<\/p>\n

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Yes, everyone knows Saturday Night Live<\/em> is not funny, but that sketch is interesting, even so.<\/p>\n

Why? What is that bit actually saying?<\/p>\n

Actors are puppets for writers, never forget that. What are the writers of that unfunny little skit trying to say?<\/p>\n

Imagine this: Your parents spent a ton of money to send you to Brown or Yale or Dartmouth, and now you have the thoroughly unsexy job of writing unfunny comedy bits for an unwatched variety show that can’t even sell its own advertising time.<\/p>\n

Do you want to believe that some mouth-breather in Dubuque can get an education just as useless as yours at, say, one percent of the cost your parents paid out?<\/p>\n

Worse, what if that guy’s education is better<\/em> than yours? What if he can get a job that amounts to something, in an industry that is growing, not dying? What if people make or lose money — or even live or die — based on his academic performance?<\/p>\n

He doesn’t have your class ring, and he doesn’t belong to your network of drunken dissipates — each one of whom is stuck in a going-nowhere job just like yours. But, but, but: He doesn’t feel himself endowed with the centuries of effete sneerpower to which you lay claim but have done nothing to deserve.<\/p>\n

The truth you don’t dare admit is that your education distinguishes you in no way at all. You studied nothing serious, and you learned nothing of what you studied. You put in time and you made connections, but you don’t actually know anything, you can’t actually do<\/em> anything, and if you are ever required to be anything more than an expert at supercilious self-pity, you will be dismissed at once. You are nothing but your vaunted pedigree, and that pedigree is based entirely<\/em> on the accomplishments of other people — the vast majority of them long since deceased.<\/p>\n

This is the naked essence of that fake advertisement, the snarling envy and resentment of an entire social class composed of nothing but empty suits.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the disestablishment, y’all…<\/p>\n

The question is, what if we’ve really screwed the pooch this time. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watch this: Yes, everyone knows Saturday Night Live is not funny, but that sketch is interesting, even so. Why? What is that bit actually saying? Actors are puppets for writers, never forget that. What are the writers of that unfunny little skit trying to say? 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