The Neo-Marxist told us last night that you have to care about what you are doing. His passionate speech made really think about what I am doing.
This discipline has hope. It holds didactic lessons that will survive the test of time. There will always be room for economic (political) philosophers. It is a valuable profession that has bastardized itself into something it is not.
My Albanian colleague: "America is better. These idiots with their noses turned up will never succeed until they realize that America is better."
Myself: "Well, America's system is better. Its institutions are better."
Albanian: "No, America is better, period."
We were really talking about productive individuals. A country is not great. Only individuals are great. It does not matter if they were American or not, but it was a good conversation.
America's commitment to the customer has made it the country it is today. It is why I struggle to understand my European professors. The customer (student) is sovereign in America. This mentality allows societal processes to find proper solutions to problems.
I am over the heptathlete.
*Bruce Springsteen
This is a great line. Men are crazy. They are primitive. They could snap at any second. Some do. But, the ones who find someone or something to love with all of the madness in their soul are cured of the curse. The ones who channel their craziness into devotion are the ones who succeed.
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