Saturday, September 3, 2016

City of Diss

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Read: Wells Fargo Officially Damned To STEM Hell Of Its Own Devising

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Read: OOOH! You have unlocked the Heldensnark! It's Satan's own 8am Trigonometry class for you!

5 comments:

  1. funny but easy for them to say. Let's ask some singers who almost made it and couldn't afford to keep going.

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    1. Well, yeah. But this reaction -- which has been widespread and not limited to successful opera singers, thus the ensuing apology from WF - really doesn't have much to do with the success or failure of individuals in the performing arts market. It really has more to do with the intentional institutional devaluing of the Humanities in general. This in turn has been part of the gradual commodification of education that has been going on here for the last 30 years, and which has had very real consequences -- cf the level of discourse in this presidential campaign season.

      So while this may seem petty snark directed at a minor, forgettable advertising campaign, there are in fact bigger issues at play.

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    2. yes, this. The view that arts education is luxurious/optional rather than a necessity, hence the first to be cut

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  2. and which has had very real consequences

    the consequences are that few people can afford to even think of... can you really expect parents to steer children towards art education when jobs in general are hard to come by? the attitude is of course based on the limited scope of contemporary values ($$$$) everywhere in the West. I'm as offended as the rest of you but until we get rid of corporatism it's going to continue like this.

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    1. I don't expect parents to steer their children toward anything, frankly. People, kids especially, should be allowed to try what roads they will, and adjust course as necessary. But I think there's a significant difference between saying that the arts are a financially risky pursuit and what the ad copy is suggesting: that the arts are a juvenile pursuit.

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