Posted by alexandra_k on May 20, 2018, at 16:54:14
In reply to Re: do know what's wrong, posted by sigismund on May 20, 2018, at 15:48:17
> Perhaps you need to study law? Then you could find a field perhaps even more full of psychopaths from private schools.
I studied law for a year at the commercial centre destination. Perhaps surprisingly I think there is a greater level of baseline sociopathy in wannabe medical students.
Medicine provides a much more... intimate... way of messing with people / controlling them. something very direct and hands on about it.
Law has also chosen to limit entry significantly less than Medicine. So people spend however many years studying law and then don't even get jobs as public defenders. I don't know that Medical graduates have trouble finding jobs as junior doctors in the public sector... I mean, I know they keep threatening for that to be the case but... Marketing...
> What interests me, as I look back, is the more or less complete ignorance of people aged around 20. They'd be good at bluffing.
Yeah. Kept so busy there is no time to think...
But also obliviousness about the significance of things, for sure.
I've been surprised to learn how utterly undemocratic things are this far south in the world... I put in this thing to get to a committee... And particular individuals keep preventing it from getting to the committee. First, someone who is on the committee (the chair, or whatever) said they had the power to make decisions on behalf of the committee. Refusal to get things to the committee. This year administration refused to pass it on to the committee. I found a precedent in this government report that was done in Queensland about how particular individuals should not make this kind of decision -- committees should. I tried to get the university to look into this -- you appeal to the univesrity council - which is a commmittee. Then I had a meeting with a guy who is supposed to decide whether it is worth the committee looking at it.
Who are these individuals? Don't they have real work (that is their job) to be doing?
And then the committee is likely to be comprised of white man clones and people who think just like them. They've learned they can find women and Maaori who think just like them and an increasing number of them are included (only if they are really forced to show a modicum of diversity, of course).
There was something in the paper today about how a town voted not to have Maaori wardens. It was a cartoon with a couple Maaori guys saying that the process wasn't democratic because non-Maaori were allowed to vote.
The assumption (by them) being that non-Maaori wouldn't want Maaori wardens -- but that Maaori would.
Do Maaori get to vote by secret ballot so they can't be bullied / harrassed for the way they voted?? If so...
Do they really think that the majority of Maaori would prefer Maaori wardens to police?
For reals?
Depends a lot on how democratic the Maaori are in the area (I don't know). I've seen Maaori wardens who were female... Looking out for females to help them get to safety etc. On the other hand, I've seen Maaori wardens who were big bully males just going about looking to pick fights.
Anyways...
Seems to me that people will let me do anything - just so long as it isn't the only thing it is that I actually want to do.
This the way of most people.
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