Skills that will equip you for (our own) success, part deux

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. Skills that will equip you for (our own) success, part deux. Intl. J. Inact., 2:77

Apparently Marsha Enright of the “College of the United States” doesn’t like something I said earlier about their upcoming “seminar” for “success”. In brief, she thinks I was wrong, period.

But just to understand how Enright arrived at her thinking, I decided to check out some of her other blog entries. Some summaries:

• 2009-06-19: “Humility” is bad. Feynman! Galileo!
• 2009-06-09: “Critical thinking” is a Maoist construct. I was insulted while I was a kid, and that was wrong! And, “Objectivism” “Objectivity” is good. All hail Ayn Rand!
• 2009-06-04: “Political correctness” is bad. “Social justice” is bad. One shouldn’t have to promise not to insult other people. (This doesn’t contradict the above.)
• 2009-03-27: First-hand observations are very important, especially when examining the issue of global warming — which is probably another Maoist conspiracy. However, first-hand observations aren’t needed when talking about stuff such as Aristotle.

I’m sure that if you attend their seminar, you’ll also be able to, um, think in a similar way, and soon find yourself on the pathway to “Objectivity!” and “Lifetime Success!” However, you’ll first need to think up US$1,300.

Skills that will equip you for (our own) success

cite as: F. Bi. 2009. Skills that will equip you for (our own) success. Intl. J. Inact., 2:75

Be very afraid, for these people know how to judge art objectively.

I’ve been busy (like Greenfyre, I guess), but check out this seminar announcement from the “College of the United States” which the Heartland Institute has been disseminating:

Announcing
The Great Connections:
Mastering the Intellectual Tools that Transform
a College Education into Lifetime Success

Here’s one of the “skills” which the seminar will impart:

• Explore the application of the concept of objectivity to art, and decide whether something can be judged a work of art – or not.

What this has to do with attaining “success” is anyone’s guess. Then again, the seminar costs US$1,300, and it has a session on global warming with Larry Gould as instructor, so it must be pretty good, no?

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Update 2009-06-20: Someone from the “College” has replied, and so have I.