Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?
Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?
You have more money?
It's called being more discerning. The non-cerebral aspects of life will become increasingly tedious and commonplace. It's definitely a double edged sword.
Doctorate Level Education wrote:Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?
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Sorry to disappoint you, but that doesn't happen. Age and money can make that happen, but not education.
I've met lots of PhDs who were happy to get an adjuncting gig at a local community college. Hope yours is in a relevant, practical field.
In part, it's a matter of who you're associating with. You've gone from hanging out with undergrads to spending your time with grad students and professors. You're influenced by your peer group.
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Doctorate Level Education wrote:Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?0/10
Sorry to disappoint you, but that doesn't happen. Age and money can make that happen, but not education.
Exactly. Even the thought that something as complex as a woman could be summarized as higher or lower "quality" is a gross oversimplification and displays a complete lack of education.
It's all the free wine and cheese and fancy olives you get at department functions. You get accustomed to the good life.
Perhaps as you go even higher in education, you'll learn how to spell "acquire."
Didn't someone post this thread with almost the exact same title and basic idea last year?
Doctorate Level Education wrote:
Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?
It's called being a bourgeois ladder-climbing nouveau riche tool. And like the Guns N' Roses sang, You Ain't The First. All aboard the bourgeois boat! Commemorating it's third century of service!
You got the job at the firm? Time to drop 5-10k on suits and work wear. Oh, you think this reflects your own advancement of personal taste rather than the determinism of the funnel/ladder you are climbing, whose rules you are powerless to shake up or break? Hahaha.
The only thing you're acquiring a taste for is overblown self-importance.
company you keep wrote:
In part, it's a matter of who you're associating with. You've gone from hanging out with undergrads to spending your time with grad students and professors. You're influenced by your peer group.
Now that's funny. I've spent the last 25 years with grad students and professors. Maybe in the Humanities they are all rich and cultured, but in science and engineering it's not exactly high society. Grad students are basically street people and professors are Joe Sixpack. Engineers do, however, inexplicably tend to have smart and hot wives and girlfriends.
Haussmannization_Nation wrote:
Doctorate Level Education wrote:Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?
It's called being a bourgeois ladder-climbing nouveau riche tool. And like the Guns N' Roses sang, You Ain't The First. All aboard the bourgeois boat! Commemorating it's third century of service!
You got the job at the firm? Time to drop 5-10k on suits and work wear. Oh, you think this reflects your own advancement of personal taste rather than the determinism of the funnel/ladder you are climbing, whose rules you are powerless to shake up or break? Hahaha.
That paragraph doesn't portray you as an intellectual who is above it all, it portrays you as a prissy douche who couldn't succeed in the working world and is bitter
Interesting, I go bird hunting with a couple of PhDs, we go to places like Goodland, KS and spend the night in the TuffShed bunkhouse with 2x4 bunk beds and a port-a-potty. Another PhD friend has always insisted on staying at Super8 when we have traveled together to races.
Doctorate Level Education wrote:
Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?
Doctorate Level Education wrote:
Everything has to be of higher quality, clothes, cars, women, foods, etc. Why is this?
Are you a doctor that helps people or one of those where entry is so easy that they actually pay for your interviews and accomodations?
Angry Willy wrote:Interesting, I go bird hunting with a couple of PhDs, we go to places like Goodland, KS and spend the night in the TuffShed bunkhouse with 2x4 bunk beds and a port-a-potty. Another PhD friend has always insisted on staying at Super8 when we have traveled together to races.
[/quote]I'm a PhD-ed academic and this is much closer to what I've observed than is the prattle about "bourgeois ladder-climbing nouveau riche".
Haha, sensitive are we? Some latent (likely bourgeois) insecurity, smoldering with petty pain? You've lost rationality and are not attacking my premises but making assumptions about who I am. Irrelevant ad-hominem attacks that have no basis. What my life accomplishments have been, what my educational history has been, what my income and status in American society is. I expect my words now will further enrage you and only hope you can utilize this anger to actually engage in constructive argument.
My first post, quoted by you, was a rhetorical comment to the perceived amateurishness and snobbery I took to be implied in the original thread post. I have enough of a sample size of these boards day and night to tell you that threads in those vein proliferate. According to the civilized and sophisticated pragmatics, f you want to be taken seriously and in good faith in a forum/discussion, certain articulation and explanatory detail ought to be summoned.
Are you the type of person too common on these boards, who is infuriated by complex and passionate language? Don't try ad hominem attacks on me. You haven't even correctly perceived my humanity.
My superior morality and considerate, conscientious thought unfortunately far exceeds too many people of every walk of life in our society. Such qualities I consider to be the required threshold of normalcy and good citizenry and well-rounded people.
But my guess is, morality is irrelevant in your heart of hearts and you stand tall by the products of your unthinking institutional hard work and accumulations to your resume. You want to talk about might makes right, and you've lost the argument and are either in the league of the people I'm criticizing--the petty bourgeoisie--or the league of sheer evil.
I'm a PhD-ed academic and this is much closer to what I've observed than is the prattle about "bourgeois ladder-climbing nouveau riche".[/quote]"Prattle," eh? To bring my answer to the other poster in, yes, indeed I am an intellectual, sheer gold shining bright before the dullness of your company.
Prattle, except for countless intellectuals and men and women of accomplishment in the 19th and early 20th century in every major European country that shared such society-critical opinions as hinted at by my first post. (You obviously are not familiar with them or deprive them of consideration) A mere fraction of whose intellectual output and contribution to humanity very likely dwarfs that of you and your friends, unless you can prove otherwise.
The blue-collar trappings of you and your friends is an appropriate retort to the OP. Directed primarily at me, it is not.
I don't use judgmental language that could offend delicate sensibilities without cause. I am a moral and intelligent human. I hope you can make productive responses. But more likely, illogical hateful attacks will pour forth from all directions, revealing more and more about the nature of modern humans. Woe..
Ah, douchebag screwed it up for all of us with his stupid improper tag closing. Let me try that again.
Haha, sensitive are we? Some latent (likely bourgeois) insecurity, smoldering with petty pain? You've lost rationality and are not attacking my premises but making assumptions about who I am. Irrelevant ad-hominem attacks that have no basis. What my life accomplishments have been, what my educational history has been, what my income and status in American society is. I expect my words now will further enrage you and only hope you can utilize this anger to actually engage in constructive argument.
My first post, quoted by you, was a rhetorical comment to the perceived amateurishness and snobbery I took to be implied in the original thread post. I have enough of a sample size of these boards day and night to tell you that threads in those vein proliferate. According to the civilized and sophisticated pragmatics, f you want to be taken seriously and in good faith in a forum/discussion, certain articulation and explanatory detail ought to be summoned.
Are you the type of person too common on these boards, who is infuriated by complex and passionate language? Don't try ad hominem attacks on me. You haven't even correctly perceived my humanity.
My superior morality and considerate, conscientious thought unfortunately far exceeds too many people of every walk of life in our society. Such qualities I consider to be the required threshold of normalcy and good citizenry and well-rounded people.
But my guess is, morality is irrelevant in your heart of hearts and you stand tall by the products of your unthinking institutional hard work and accumulations to your resume. You want to talk about might makes right, and you've lost the argument and are either in the league of the people I'm criticizing--the petty bourgeoisie--or the league of sheer evil.
"Prattle," eh? To bring my answer to the other poster in, yes, indeed I am an intellectual, sheer gold shining bright before the dullness of your company.
Prattle, except for countless intellectuals and men and women of accomplishment in the 19th and early 20th century in every major European country that shared such society-critical opinions as hinted at by my first post. (You obviously are not familiar with them or deprive them of consideration) A mere fraction of whose intellectual output and contribution to humanity very likely dwarfs that of you and your friends, unless you can prove otherwise.
The blue-collar trappings of you and your friends is an appropriate retort to the OP. Directed primarily at me, it is not.
I don't use judgmental language that could offend delicate sensibilities without cause. I am a moral and intelligent human. I hope you can make productive responses. But more likely, illogical hateful attacks will pour forth from all directions, revealing more and more about the nature of modern humans. Woe..[/quote]
ex grad student wrote:
It's all the free wine and cheese and fancy olives you get at department functions. You get accustomed to the good life.
The next time will be the first for my dept.