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September 15, 2015

When you select for an administrative, bureaucratic elite based on how maudlin their essays are about their trips to Africa and South America

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— along with how crowded their extracurricular schedules were, and how well they filled in bubbles on exams with no. 2 pencils — you may discover that you’ve selected for a group of feckless and sentimental morons who are nonetheless disproportionately good at lacrosse and cheating on take-home exams.
This group will be completely immune to persuasion that it might be a bad thing for all the nice people who posed so nicely in those photos when you were on your international community service trip might be less than compatible with the countries that you have been charged with ruling. When the only pilgrimage you recognize as valid is the one taken for community service hours to buffer your application to Harvard, it’s going to be hard to empathize or understand cultures that take things like pilgrimages to Mecca seriously. The Global South Marches On the Global North - Henry Dampier

Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 15, 2015 1:12 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Awww... you left the best quote out, Gerard:

"Rational evil can be dealt with in rational terms, through argument and persuasion. Holy insanity can only be opposed directly or survived by hunkering down."

There.

Thank you for the nice link. :)

Posted by: John Condon [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 15, 2015 6:51 PM

Silly buggers is what they're playing.

I gotta get me one a them hats.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 17, 2015 11:19 PM

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