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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I said, "I don't know if she is or isn't" what Brooks accuses. Did you read that?
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Yes, and I was helping you decide.
He's talking about a woman who worked in the White House, was the Dean of HLS, and the Solicitor General before she was 50. Any one of those jobs would be the career highlight for most people. If he thinks she's failing upwards, he should try to figure out why she's doing it with such velocity.
Seriously -- there's a huge difference between her career and a law professor who writes pointless articles on technical subjects that no one will care about.
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And she isn't the point. I was merely using Brooks' article to demonstrate I'm hardly the only person alive to have noticed, "Wow, a lot of what passes for 'talent' these days is robotic obedience married to the cheapest forms of technical intelligence." If Brooks - possibly the least insightful voice in punditry - notices we're breeding corporate wastelands of wind up dolls, the problem's probably terminal.
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There seem to be a lot of those people around if you go looking for them, but why bother?
