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In Reply to: RE: The flagpole story? posted by Michael Samra on April 14, 2017 at 23:53:59
Engineers have given us a safe world to live in. Think about it.
The 'liberal arts' aka 'the humanities' is where engineers get the value system that drives them to keep on building a safe world for us.
How many engineers, systems analysts and 'liberal arts' graduates do you actually know? And if you do know any, do you realise how special they are?
My FILaw had a 'liberal arts' double-honours degree in Classics (Latin, Ancient History and Greek) and in English, from Sydney University. Later on he received an MA from London University College.
Most of these people died before they could tell us what they did during the war.
Just after the war he was offered a post, at our equivalent of West Point, as a lecturer in English. He retired as Professor.
Not long before he died he received the United Kingdom's 'Bletchely Park Medal' officially called the 'Government Code and Cypher School Medal' for his work during WWII in code breaking.
Bletchely Park is where Britain/UK finally broke Enigma, and the Geheimschrieber codes.
Useless people these 'liberal arts' folks, aren't they?
Maybe not?
Without brilliant humanities / 'liberal arts' people the Western Allies would not have won the code-war in WWII.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Follow Ups:
Tim,
I understood your post just fine and I realize what you are saying.I figured you posted the parts you found funny and I posted the parts I found the most funny.
I guess maybe we have a different perception of humor in the areas we come from. Being so many college grads with liberal arts degrees are not working in their respective fields and many are working at burger joints,this is why we find it funny because there is so much of it.I wasn't trying to analyze what you were saying or thinking one way or the other.I was simply pointing out the part I found funny.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
First off, Mikey, thank you for the polite response! ;~)!
your signature tag by HL Mencken is, in its own way a statement of Mencken's own 'liberal arts' limitations.
In fact, as I have showed you - with the bus driver/conductor problem, there sometimes really are, simple, and clear solutions that dissolve the problem / make the problem go away.
HL Mencken happens to be one of my favourite American writers, but his limited vision / training drives that quote.
Some problems, like radical islamisicism, just don't have simple solutions. Bother / bugger, eh?!
So when HL Mencken says that NO such simple gordian-knot-cut solutions can exist he is just plain wrong. Try to believe me here.
One day soon I will be able to report on how the new 63s plus swarm subs is sounding.
When you are in full Summer, and I'm in full WINTER, I will be able to tell you if I prefer SS to the LEAKs strapped in mono, into the filtered 63s. AS you prescribed.
Tired old, grumpy, cancerous Timbo.
:-)! and ;-)!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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