Philosophical Resignation
Jeannette Cooperman,
The Common Reader,
Nov 30, 2020
"Not even the Sixties flower children were as countercultural as philosophy is today," writes Jeannette Cooperman, "and philosophers are clever enough to know their odds." But that was never the point. People who become philosophers, indeed, people who don't scan the job market before deciding on what to study, are thinking of far broader aspirations. "If you train your mind to think deeply, you are not predestined to be a blazing success in our culture's material terms. You are likelier to wind up juggling data in the tech world or doing slightly blurry, multipurpose work supporting a nonprofit." If, somehow, you can afford to be concerned about more then mere survival, then you might be lucky enough to be one of those who gets to be in the room when the large topics are discussed.
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