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Overspecialization Equals a Loss of Independence
IWB ^ | Mark Angelides

Posted on 03/27/2018 8:25:58 AM PDT by davikkm

Careers are becoming more specialized than ever, and with this, we as a species are losing the ability to operate and live effectively without the support structures of the existing status quo. This is a loss of independence that is only going to get worse, and the only answer, is as ever, education. But not the “pleasant indoctrination” being enforced by our regular schools.

Skills training is almost frowned upon nowadays, and even when it is not, it is specialized skills that are valued. How many of us can handle basic household electrical repairs? What about plumbing, carpentry, and even farming? More importantly, how many of us can do all of these things?

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: carpentry; farming; overspecialization; plumbing

1 posted on 03/27/2018 8:25:58 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

I can!, I am 58 and we learned ALL of this in Junior High School


2 posted on 03/27/2018 8:31:48 AM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: davikkm

>>What about plumbing, carpentry, and even farming? More importantly, how many of us can do all of these things?<<

*raises hand*

Me. Nearing 60 YO. Had to do a lot of that stuff around the house when I as a teen and Boy Scouts (pre-butthump) taught me a LOT about survival incuding growing and hunting.

I suspect almost all Millennials (certainly the urban/suburban) and many Gen-Xers are represented by that kid on the commercial who asks “is this a lug wrench?”


3 posted on 03/27/2018 8:32:06 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
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To: davikkm

I hate articles that present a problem and no realistic solution.


4 posted on 03/27/2018 8:32:42 AM PDT by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: davikkm
It is extremely unlikely that we will experience a planet sized EMP within our lifetimes, rendering the current state of the world null and void…but imagine if it did.

The made up EMP "threat" is about as real as global warming.

5 posted on 03/27/2018 8:34:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: davikkm

How many of us can handle basic household electrical repairs? What about plumbing, carpentry, and even..

Well for some things. But what is basic these days? At 15-16 I was changing out transmissions and engines in cars. Today you have to have a computer degree! Everything is no complicated and complex thanks to Nanny Government.


6 posted on 03/27/2018 8:37:36 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: central_va

Remember our history when Ford came up with the assembly line? Price of cars went down big time. What about the freedom an affordable car gave us all. Can’t wait for us all to move in driverless ones. Purchasing one will be unnecessary. Think Uber x ? Think even more freedom to get things done. Get rid of garages. Turn them into man caves.


7 posted on 03/27/2018 8:38:23 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

So is uber going to haul my boat to the lake?


8 posted on 03/27/2018 8:39:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: davikkm

You need to develop a skills portfolio that is just as diversified as any good financial portfolio.


9 posted on 03/27/2018 8:39:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: davikkm

VGDSA! as me old DI used to say!
KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid!

Simplicity & Continuity!
Any idiot can get that!
Grok It? ~ THAT’S ANOTHER THING ENTIRELY!
;)
Gunny G@PlanetWTF?
TRUMP.45! IF? We Can Keep Him?
*********************************


10 posted on 03/27/2018 8:40:24 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: dfwgator

Is Stormy Daniels a “specialist”?


11 posted on 03/27/2018 8:41:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

More than a few of the bigger houses in my area have their garages stuffed full of boxes.

My garage has one car and the other side with stuff being sorted from the old house. One day, I hope to park there.


12 posted on 03/27/2018 8:47:54 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: eyeamok; davikkm

#METOO


13 posted on 03/27/2018 9:23:17 AM PDT by semaj (U\)
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
How many of us can handle basic household electrical repairs?

220. 221. Whatever it takes...

14 posted on 03/27/2018 9:35:49 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: freedumb2003
...that kid on the commercial who asks “is this a lug wrench?”

Maybe ...

And maybe it identifies as a lug-wrench. Who are you to deny its inherent lug-wrenchness ...?

15 posted on 03/27/2018 9:49:10 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Until it is decided that those vehicles won’t service you unless you have the correct views and live where someone decides you should.


16 posted on 03/27/2018 10:08:24 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
How many of us can handle basic household electrical repairs? What about plumbing, carpentry, and even farming?
All that, and cooking, too. People I know who are younger than me? They know bupkis, and look down their long aquiline noses at such skills. Why else would they support unfettered illegal immigration? Gotta have inferiors to do the manual labor. Thanks davikkm.

17 posted on 03/27/2018 12:46:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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