Indeed!

It was a pretty good indie movie!

The way out of this mess is to make a college degree prestigious again by cutting off the supply of degrees and making it possible for people to be successful without one.

All this leads to a campus environment where students are there to pay money, get a degree, and watch a football game.

If their grades drop so what? They can get the grade expunged, and keep going.

Then when this play time is over they can leave and do something meaningful.

4. Businesses have long abandoned the process of training and evaluating people...because it costs resources. So they as a group ask for more "evaluators" of ability to make it easy for them - more degrees, more credentials. This pushes more reluctant people into higher ed.

3. The way unis market their campus now is truly insane. They *made* it a commercial good to attract students. So they talk about how fast you can get a degree, the cool sports, etc.

Well if you put it that way I'm not sure if this documentary is that much different.

It might be that Burns' work has stayed the same...but a population of the country has lost the plot and reject all talk of slavery (not pro-America) and vaccines (no idea why).

That, combined with the adequate chronicling of slavery, the indigenous experience during this time, and a recognition of the importance of inoculation (vaccination) to the success of the Patriots, makes me wonder how the MAGA crowd takes this cultural product.

I mean is it ..."woke"?

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This idea of essences resulted in people thinking the British were "natural" seafarers, a person from Italy can make pasta very well, black people naturally create social dysfunctions, so on and so forth.

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I suspect both biologists and sociologist converge on that same conclusion, given that both assert humans are absurdly adaptable, even if one ties more human behavior to evolutionary processes, the other to meaning making.

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