Who would you guys say is the most political fighter who is not shy about letting their opinion be heard regarding current events, etc?
Monson has a PH.D in psychology, IIRC. He's more a proof that grad students and professors in the liberal arts and social sciences shouldn't have their political opinions taken seriously....
Everyone is entitled to their own political opinion.. Monson is outlandish, but he has great reason to hate Bush.
"LOL, having gotten an engineering degree and spent time as a physics major, I always thought technical PhD's were some of the most bizzare, antisocial and common-sense-challenged people in all of humanity..."
as someone who's about 3 classes from completing a psych degree, trust me, the grass isn't much greener on the humanities/social science side. You're just swapping one set of dysfunctions for another.
some humanities and social science degrees produce pretty solid people though. History (humanities) and Economics (social science) majors tend to have a good and balanced perspective on things, even when they disagree with me and are, therefore, wrong. ;)
everyone's a little crazy, honestly. just look at all the bullshit the human race and every single culture has swallowed at one point or another....
Luke Cummo has a good "vote with your dollar" campaign going on.
Totally agree with him... Wish he wasn't censored.
I met many messed up people while going to university. Most seem to never leave the campus but yet they think they know everything about the world. They create all these crazy theories about the world from their dorm rooms, info they find on people's blogs and what their Profs tell them.
A lot of the Profs will fail students that disagree with their lectures/books.
LOL, having gotten an engineering degree and spent time as a physics major, I always thought technical PhD's were some of the most bizzare, antisocial and common-sense-challenged people in all of humanity...
That's why shoes with velcro were invented, to help with these types of people.
Arlovski is very active in politics around Chicago
It's been my observation that the majority of people who gravitate toward psychology are motivated to do so because they have serious mental issues and are seeking insight and resolution for it. That doesn't bode well for the people who seek one out for counseling.
"Monson has a PH.D in psychology"
He only has a masters degree I believe.
Most political? Mirko. He serves in goverement rather than just making silly statements in internet videos about discredited theories and utopian pipe dreams.
Economics majors have the best perspective on the world. You learn more about how things actually work than any other major.
That said, it's a person by person thing. you'll find normal people and wierdos in every single major.
Answer to thread, mirko, duh. end thread.
when associating with scholars and artists we easily miscalculate in opposite directions: behind a remarkable scholar one finds, not infrequently, a mediocre man, and behind a mediocre artist quite often-a very remarkable man.
Nietzsche
"The study of history actually reveals some semblance of meaning beyond the material, at least more than can be said for economics (which might betray the Hobbesian nature of man, but little else in the aforementioned regard)."
lol. history doesn't tell you how the world works. "meaning beyond the material" is a bullshit phrase you pulled out of your ass to make yourself sound significant. Study utility theory, game theory, market theory etc if you want to know how the world works. half of history is memorizing dates, names, and which royal slept with who. And that's coming from someone who considers themselves a history buff.
You probably should understand economics before you make grand statements about 'meaning beyond the material' lol at your bullshit, who uses aforementioned on an interent message board. You arent going to impress anyone because you sure as hell can't cover up asinine (oooo big word) logic with large words.
"lol. history doesn't tell you how the world works"
It certainly can teach much about how the world works. I suspect you have a different idea of "how the world works" in your mind than what he has.
You also used the term "how things work". I suppose it would be important to define what "things" you are talking about?
Can anyone one discipline teach it all? Of course not. That is probably one of the reasons you see studies and issues crossing discipline lines so often. Poly Sci for example draws on history it draws on economic theories. It takes ideas from economics and uses them to study actors and issues out side of the economic realm. For example it takes ideas about supply and demand and applies them to things such as democracy.
"lmao at calling Monson a meathead. Whether you agree with him or not, he is smarter than anyone who will post on this thread."
I disagree. The first thing I learned at university is that in America you don't need to be that smart to get into many American universities. Out of curiosity what schools did Jeff earn his degrees at?
Second of all I have done rather well in school my self (not to sound arrogant) and am preparing to enter law school. I do not doubt that there are others even smarter than I am (very possibly much smarter) and more educated to boot. Intellegence and education do not always go hand in hand. As a poly sci major I will say that most of Monsons rants I have heard are silly and non academic at best. You can tell he went to school in the 70 or 80s before the theories he prescibes to were discredited and abdonned by American profesors who fled to post modernism.
He is still on the cutting edge of south american political thought, and all their failed policies that came from them.
Why is the study of economics and history all of the sudden mutually exclusive? Braudel, Gramsci, even Marx was a firm believer in Hegelian historicity.
As far as the original question, depends on what you mean by "political" I guess.
"You can tell he went to school in the 70 or 80s before the theories he prescibes to were discredited and abdonned by American profesors who fled to post modernism."
I was a poly scit major in the early 90s. Did all those marxist professors I have get fired and replaced by free-market types?
Damn!
Monson is definetly the most political...although hes against politics
DannyOcean
Jesus christ if thats what you think History is then you have no freakin idea buddy... and you aint no history buff with that mentality
Only way to know were you going is to know were you been.. History scholars have the keenest insight into just about everything!
Mirko Cro Cop....he's a member of parliament in croatia