It's like who's making the stories and creating the art designs and characters for these things? If the world was full of engineers.... I don't even wanna think about it... I just kinda felt like getting that off my chest.

EDIT: I'm talking about STEMlord types here, just to be clear. Not STEM majors, but the specific type that loves to lord over the fact that they are superior to other majors. And I say this as someone who did STEM myself but only came to really appreciate the humanities much later.

EDIT 2: This clip from Jurassic Park is so critical here: https://youtu.be/mRNX6XJOeGU

  • Dewot523 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I am once again asking you to just directly comment on whatever article ticked you off and stop getting mad online at a new type of guy you made up in your head.

    Any division you perceive between the arts and the sciences is entirely culturally manufactured. People with engineering degrees don't have to drink a potion that makes them hate art to graduate. Everyone from music theorists to avant garde sculptors use advanced math in their work. The cutting edge of science and philosophy are in constant academic dialogue with each other.

    • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is definitely not a made up guy. In engineering undergrad, rabid anti-arts/literature/humanities bros are one of the most common archetypes.

      It's simultaneously frustration about other people having "easier" coursework and brainworms about how those career paths are less lucrative implying that they are less deserving of respect. Hating on these people gives their fragile egos enough of a feeling of superiority to justify continuing to push through a course load that they wouldn't have entertained had it not been sold as a sure-fire path to economic success.

    • queenjamie [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Any division you perceive between the arts and the sciences is entirely culturally manufactured. People with engineering degrees don’t have to drink a potion that makes them hate art to graduate. Everyone from music theorists to avant garde sculptors use advanced math in their work. The cutting edge of science and philosophy are in constant academic dialogue with each other.

      I agree. I was talking about STEMlord types. I mean just look at Neil DeGrasse Tyson when he said that philosophy is useless: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/neil-degrasse-tyson-and-the-value-of-philosophy_b_5330216. There's a whole army of these STEMlords that worship Elon Musk and love Sam Harris that believe this shit.