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Yes. Remember, as I have said, I also have ODD.

Don’t forget Geography!

Without business, there’s no money to pay artists.

And you don’t even need the university to get a liberal arts education. Arts and humanities are tied to the success of any business. To be pleasing to consumers, you have to take graphic and industrial design into consideration. You might have the one invention that’s going to radically change the world for the better, but if it doesn’t look like anything anyone would ever want to use, how do you intend to get it into the hands of those who need it most?

Maybe you have a drug that wipes out HIV AND cancer. Doesn’t matter how great it is if you can’t get your message out. The humanities already factor into everything we do. All you have to do is talk to people and ask them what they want. Then you find someone who can deliver on it. I can almost guarantee there are folk artists out there who can do just as well as university graduates.

Even now there’s a YouTube video for practically everything. And if you need more specialized help, you can take individual college courses to develop skills. I took a college course in sound design and synth programming and two courses in film composing, and that was YEARS after I finished my master’s
degree. I got more practical knowledge from 3 courses than 2 years of full-time coursework plus a thesis. I’ve worked out a music composition algorithm using PureData and am very slowly learning how to code it in Swift, all by watching YouTube. When I look back on what I did for two music degrees and what I’d hoped I’d accomplish, it really does seem like I’d have been better off skipping the college route altogether along with massive debt and just going for it alone.

But you can’t earn those degrees without first having a comprehensive education, including having to study things that do nothing to improve or enhance what you’re there to do. What one professor thinks is great literature or another professor’s opinion of history that is taught as law is totally irrelevant to learning any of these things, yet college profs frequently use their positions as platforms for indoctrination. I say take what you need and bypass all the bs. I believe one day a lot of your academic programs will pass into irrelevance and the only role universities will have will be in training certain types of professionals, such as teachers, physicians, lawyers, and the like. There are already independent universities springing up to rescue kids from having to swallow the leftist garbage version of the humanities, so I think that day is fast approaching.

Published writers? I mean, why even bother? You know how to tell a good story, you know what everyone out there is reading, you have a good handle on grammatical structure which, if you’re writing formula fiction and you’re writing colloquial dialogue you don’t even need most of the time. So get busy and tell your story.

Musician? Start a band.

Songwriter? Producer? Invest in a rhyming thesaurus. DAWs are straightforward enough to be almost self-explanatory. You don’t need a degree for that.

Classical musician? Forget it. In fact, I used to think that having studied and practiced clarinet and having a master’s degree would open some doors and help me get an orchestra gig. Nope. Principal clarinet in the local symphony doesn’t even HAVE a music degree, the 2nd chair guy is a university prof who doesn’t even live here, and, like, MAYBE 3 people who are in the orchestra actually do live here. Everyone else is scattered across 4 different states.

The ONLY advantages my degree has ever given me is slightly higher pay than other high school teachers and the ability to offer music classes for college credit.

Oh, and I’ve personally known gifted instrumentalists who couldn’t give up pot long enough to make it to class enough to even get an associate’s degree who dropped out and still get symphony gigs.

So...PLEASE explain to me exactly how it is an almighty college degree in the humanities is supposed to help us? Because the only thing I’ve ever seen humanities grads ever do consistently is breed more profs who keep shrieking the same old propaganda their profs drilled into them.

Oh, and it’s not just me. My wife has a bachelor’s degree in psychology. ANYBODY want to take a guess what SHE does for a living? Hint: NOT psychology! The crazy thing is she loves her current job as a teaching assistant and her coworkers and superiors recognize her gift for working with kids. They are pressuring her to go BACK to school to become a full-time elementary classroom teacher. Do NOT tell me that humanities degrees determine any kind of success. I’ve seen credentialed, experienced teachers get fired for mediocrity, while the only reason why my wife, who has the gift and only just now has anyone figured it out, can’t get the job is because state law requires creds she doesn’t have on paper. A piece of freakin’ paper you could wipe your @$$ with is all that stands in her way.

So...um...NO, I don’t really believe the almighty University is the be-all, end-all, gatekeeper of the humanities. Let individuals decide which arts are worth saving rather than some self-righteous elite academic “Bright” inflict them on us.

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There is a whole political movement fighting for the rights and welfare of the unborn, but these same people want to cut the social safety net providing food, shelter, and medical care for those in need, calling both children and their parents leeches, parasites, and eaters. These people who weep for the aborted fetus will tell the child allowed to be born to pull him of herself up by the bootstraps and learn to be self sufficient. If you're pro life, you can't have it both ways. You have to also look out for the welfare of living children and their caregivers. For any conservatives who want to damn me for being a baby killer, you might be surprised to learn that I am personally pro life. And yet I hold much of the pro life movement in contempt because they care what happens to you before you're born, and after you die, but not in between.

That falls into the category of too modern.

However, that is one of the reasons I refuse to associate to a party. I am very prolife, and am only okay with abortion if the mother has a 50% chance of dying or more. I believe in some kind of support after birth, but I'm not great at economics so I don't know how much actually makes sense. I also do not mind giving away free birth control as some pro choice people have mentioned.

Here's another one:
There is a whole political movement fighting for the rights and welfare of the unborn, but these same people want to cut the social safety net providing food, shelter, and medical care for those in need, calling both children and their parents leeches, parasites, and eaters. These people who weep for the aborted fetus will tell the child allowed to be born to pull him of herself up by the bootstraps and learn to be self sufficient. If you're pro life, you can't have it both ways. You have to also look out for the welfare of living children and their caregivers. For any conservatives who want to damn me for being a baby killer, you might be surprised to learn that I am personally pro life. And yet I hold much of the pro life movement in contempt because they care what happens to you before you're born, and after you die, but not in between.

Made all the more egregious when these people say they want the country to live by Christian values. Giving to the needy is a Christian value. Jesus Christ told people to give to the needy.

Made all the more egregious when these people say they want the country to live by Christian values. Giving to the needy is a Christian value. Jesus Christ told people to give to the needy.

I have no problem with government programs for those who need them. I have a problem with government creating dependency on programs.

I don’t have a problem with single mothers on welfare. I have a problem with single mothers and grandmothers living 15 to a house in deplorable conditions so they can live work-free. And they teach their daughters to get pregnant and continue the cycle. They even pimp them out to their uncles and cousins. Do NOT tell me this doesn’t happen. I used to work for a lawyer who made most of his money keeping the impoverished in bankruptcy, plus most of my teaching career has been among the underprivileged. I have seen it, touched it, SMELLED it. Do NOT tell me these poor people are somehow better off dependent on the government from cradle to grave. Leftist exploitation of these people in exchange for power is SICKENING.

I have no problem whatsoever supporting widows, and even more so if their husbands died in combat.

I have no problem supporting children whose own parents cannot for whatever reason adequately raise them. I don’t mean POOR. I mean abusive, mentally ill, etc.

But I DO have a BIG problem with corrupt, power-trip DHS social workers ripping kids from their parents without so much as due process. I have a BIG problem with foster parents who run their homes like some kind of business where kids run unsupervised, perpetuating cycles of abuse on younger children. I have a BIG problem with how these kids get inadequate education and are unable to care for themselves once they age out of the system.

I do not have a problem helping the disabled.

I DO have a problem with keeping the disabled drugged up and homebound when they want to at least TRY to contribute positively, and maybe they have SOME ability to do just that. People who want to continue to work doing what they enjoy but CANNOT because doing so would mean they’d lose the only margin they have in benefits. In other words, it’s a system that actually punishes people for even trying.

I do not think so-called “income inequality” is a big deal because productive people deserve to be rewarded on the basis of what they do.

I have a HUGE problem in the gap between welfare payouts and comparable entry-level wages that, over time, would lead to something that would genuinely help people get back on their feet after a personal economic crisis. The over abundance of government assistance creates dependency. I don’t think I’ll ever see a good resolution to this problem, because a government min wage mandate hurts employers. But maybe meeting in the middle somewhere with a slight increase in pay for entry level jobs with a significant enough reduction in welfare for job-seekers might make the workforce preferable to doing nothing.

It would help if welfare wasn't set up so that you can end up worse off if you work a low paying job.If the cut off for welfare was made so you are making more than you would on welfare, that would solve a lot of issues that way.

Also, if we capped how much hospitals and medical facilities could charge patients, as right now we are way over charged under the assumption of insurance.

I have no problem with government programs for those who need them. I have a problem with government creating dependency on programs.

I don’t have a problem with single mothers on welfare. I have a problem with single mothers and grandmothers living 15 to a house in deplorable conditions so they can live work-free. And they teach their daughters to get pregnant and continue the cycle. They even pimp them out to their uncles and cousins. Do NOT tell me this doesn’t happen. I used to work for a lawyer who made most of his money keeping the impoverished in bankruptcy, plus most of my teaching career has been among the underprivileged. I have seen it, touched it, SMELLED it. Do NOT tell me these poor people are somehow better off dependent on the government from cradle to grave. Leftist exploitation of these people in exchange for power is SICKENING.

I have no problem whatsoever supporting widows, and even more so if their husbands died in combat.

I have no problem supporting children whose own parents cannot for whatever reason adequately raise them. I don’t mean POOR. I mean abusive, mentally ill, etc.

But I DO have a BIG problem with corrupt, power-trip DHS social workers ripping kids from their parents without so much as due process. I have a BIG problem with foster parents who run their homes like some kind of business where kids run unsupervised, perpetuating cycles of abuse on younger children. I have a BIG problem with how these kids get inadequate education and are unable to care for themselves once they age out of the system.

I do not have a problem helping the disabled.

I DO have a problem with keeping the disabled drugged up and homebound when they want to at least TRY to contribute positively, and maybe they have SOME ability to do just that. People who want to continue to work doing what they enjoy but CANNOT because doing so would mean they’d lose the only margin they have in benefits. In other words, it’s a system that actually punishes people for even trying.

I do not think so-called “income inequality” is a big deal because productive people deserve to be rewarded on the basis of what they do.

I have a HUGE problem in the gap between welfare payouts and comparable entry-level wages that, over time, would lead to something that would genuinely help people get back on their feet after a personal economic crisis. The over abundance of government assistance creates dependency. I don’t think I’ll ever see a good resolution to this problem, because a government min wage mandate hurts employers. But maybe meeting in the middle somewhere with a slight increase in pay for entry level jobs with a significant enough reduction in welfare for job-seekers might make the workforce preferable to doing nothing.

America and Evil, two words that are as far from one another as the Sun is from Saturn. Go live in Sudan, Iran or Syria and try to evaluate (that is - if you survive) how much they contributed to the human race in medicine, agriculture, technology and science. Let me save you the trouble - the answer is - none.

Seriously bro, the world is not black/white. If you think Slavery and all other things listed were invented in America well you're wrong. Everywhere in the world had Slavery at some point, it is definitely not an "American" thing. In fact the only reason why slavery is often mentioned in relation to America is Ethnocentrism (however almost nobody remembers there were human slavery markets in Saudi Arabia till the 1960s and women were not allowed to vote till very recently).

Instead of thinking oh this and that is evil I suggest every private citizen will try to minimize his/her own bad deeds and do as much good as possible instead.