If I Did One Of Those “Man On The Street” Interviews…
By Mitch Berg
… I have a hunch I’d be really be depressed at how many people on a typical college campus would take this article seriously, and at face value.
17 Responses to “If I Did One Of Those “Man On The Street” Interviews…”
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April 17th, 2015 at 6:04 am
Cheer up big guy! I’m willing to bet your parents said something similar about you and your generation while you were in college.
April 17th, 2015 at 7:32 am
I like that they used Ferlinghetti’s bookstore for the article.
April 17th, 2015 at 10:40 am
After reading the Onion article, I’ve tried interpreting Emery’s comment about a dozen times and it still makes absolutely no sense.
April 17th, 2015 at 10:53 am
You are finally getting it, Yoss!
April 17th, 2015 at 1:35 pm
I’ll dumb it down for both Y and JPA. MBerg looks down his nose and makes a condescending remark directed at a younger generation of college students.
April 17th, 2015 at 1:52 pm
Emery – I’m not condescending. I’m alarmed.
You wanna place a bet as to the percentage of kids at Macalester or Saint Olaf – out of either ignorance or “progressive” zeal – would take this as a straight story?
April 17th, 2015 at 1:53 pm
BTW, Emery, I picked college because it was on my mind.
I could have just as easily have said “at a DFL convention”, “at the Minneapolis Public Schools HQ” or “In the Marketing department at MPR”.
April 17th, 2015 at 2:18 pm
One of the big challenges in getting people to support a business is to get over the hump of realizing that profits are a good thing–as our host notes, this is a nasty reality.
Now certainly we would have had this 20-30 years back when I was back in college–had the Onion existed, we could have asked how it is that students don’t realize that an ideology that has killed ~ 100 million people before their time is a threat, but that really makes no difference. It is, on an objective scale, scary that a large number of people think that profits are bad, ignoring the fact that their paycheck comes out of margins.
April 17th, 2015 at 3:56 pm
Not off-topic, I hope: http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-college-major/
IQ estimates of college students, ranked by majors.
Note that education and social work — the people who believe they are so smart they can manage the lives of individuals better than the individuals themselves — are at the bottom.
April 17th, 2015 at 4:26 pm
MBerg: It’s a pessimistic view of todays college kids.
But to be fair I don’t seem to remember my folks subscribing to many of my attitudes and perspectives in my freshman college yr.
We pay to clothe and feed them, pay for their education and all we get in return is attitude. If that’s not soci@lism I don’t know what is. ;^)
April 18th, 2015 at 2:25 pm
I would be surprised if any LA college grad who was not majoring in economics could graph supply and demand lines on a standard graph (y=price, x=units sold) and correctly identify the point of intersection of the lines as the price.
April 18th, 2015 at 2:44 pm
Well, if there’s anyone who is supremely qualified to dumb something down, it would be Emery.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:16 pm
Y do you continue to link to an inactive website?
April 19th, 2015 at 10:11 am
Why do you care?
The person who hosts the mu.nu site has not maintained the server my blog was hosted on. It was free and I’m in no position to complain.
And, again, why do you care?
April 19th, 2015 at 11:33 am
I would like to have read some of your posts, it would allow me the opportunity to understand your perspectives better. Thank you for the reply.
As an aside, if someone chooses to be snarky with their comments, they should expect a little snark in return. ;^)
April 19th, 2015 at 12:28 pm
The Way back Machine isn’t tough to figure out, Emery:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/ramblingrhodes.mu.nu
April 19th, 2015 at 3:57 pm
Yes, I can see there is a definite lack of (financial) support. Thanks for the link.