tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084144703351548082.post2850860002688830009..comments2023-10-29T10:23:27.584-05:00Comments on Androcass: Review - The Post-American WorldEric Easterberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11535369798458596223noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084144703351548082.post-23752389834142022162008-11-15T15:01:00.000-06:002008-11-15T15:01:00.000-06:00I guess if there's one thing I've tried to put acr...I guess if there's one thing I've tried to put across in the body of work that is this blog, it is the need to doubt conventional wisdom, to ask the questions which go a level (or two) farther than the point at which discussions tend to stop. It's probably unfair to label the likes of Charlie Rose as fatuous when they let the usual talking heads ramble on about how we just need to pump more kids into STEM fields and we'll be competitive again. Just because I'm yelling at the screen, "Charlie, ask Mr. Cisco or Mr. FedEx how many of these new grads they'll be hiring, and on what basis they moved those jobs to begin with, competence or cost," doesn't mean I can expect Charlie to hear me.<BR/><BR/>But I do grow weary of the Zakarias of the world, who surely are smart people, failing to go even one step further in a chain of implications. Someone, at some point, needs to ask what Americans will do with their STEM degrees - who will hire them as long as they expect to make enough money to pay back their student loans? But no one, at least no one who holds a microphone or a notepad, ever does ask, and we're left with the bold geo-political plans of a Zakaria, but no way to pay for them, and no hope of payback from the countries that will profit the most from them. We despair for lack of these answers.Eric Easterberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11535369798458596223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1084144703351548082.post-28397361725168255612008-11-15T05:04:00.000-06:002008-11-15T05:04:00.000-06:00I agree. The Flat Worldians have been saying the s...I agree. The Flat Worldians have been saying the same thing for too many years. It's time for them to take their discourse to the next level, particularly since we're well into their much-desired "creative destruction" phase.Citizen Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12481323943813270047noreply@blogger.com