Posted by alexandra_k on October 6, 2015, at 16:19:04
In reply to Re: Reconnecting » alexandra_k, posted by Dinah on October 4, 2015, at 23:03:44
It is hard for me to keep track of time. Children growing... A different perspective on time, that's for sure.
I'm not really in anything, Dinah.
I'm learning a lot about the way things are in this country... Where we are... As the least developed of the developed nations... About troubles that we have with health and education because of that. About the clash of values between the developed and the developing. About how education here has basically been hijacked to serve the local needs of communities (according to them / the bullies that run them)... How health has gone the same way (spending less proportion of gross domestic product on health because... Infant mortality has only recently come down which makes life cheap)... On how our legal system is sort of caught between the Treaty of Waitangi on the one hand and the Bill of Rights (and international law more generally) on the other...
Sigh.
I don't know that they will let me in anything. I think law would. I think they like me because I am sort of oppositional (in case you hadn't noticed) which means I'm naturally drawn to defending the underdog. Which not very many people are suited for. And people burn out when they do it and have moral problems with doing it, I think. But... I'm not sure. I don't think that law would be a happy life for me.
Medicine is harder. There is a radical divide between the needs of local communities (charm the people since they aren't in the position to identify or notice clinical competence). Since infant mortality has dropped recently (birth rate still needs to be adjusted) we have an awful lot of unskilled people... Or... The educational system was swamped and couldn't really teach them... Or... We don't really value developed educational skills anyway... Or... We like the loud and gregarious ones... We couldn't really ignore the bully boys... And some of the girls are so pretty / charming... They stood out as the best kids. And the best kids deserve degrees in the name of equity... And they will get them. And they will go back to serve their local communities. To charm and / or bully them into being grateful for the healthcare they have.
We spend less on healthcare as a proportion of gross domestic product because... The value of a life here is less. You could have 1 or 2 kids and invest your resources in them... Or you could have 12 or 15 on the assumption that only 1 or 2 will survive to adult hood. What happens when you have 12 or 15 who all want to go to university in the name of equity? You get thousands of them all wanting to be doctors... All chatting amongst themselves about how they are lost during lectures so that the students around them can't hear / understand either.
It is like the opposite of dissociative ientity disorder. It is a ... Syncitium of a person. A person that is the fusion of 12 or 14 people. They can't function independently. When all goes well they function as a person... When there is a leader amonst them, I suppose. So that there can be a coordinated effort to achieve meaninful / productive action...
They screwed me over this year. Advertising a 'language rich' pathway to medicine... Where the idea was to reward the birds who could spout their contradictory nonsense so charming... So charming... We don't need doctors because doctors are expensive! doctors are hierarchical they won't pay sufficient time / attention to us! they won't listen all day to the 12 or 14 voices of the allied health professionals! they didn't even blind grade because they would have had to much difficulty figuring out which of the charming birds / gregarious bullies to give the A's to... but hey, welcome to nz treaty of waitangi (local community interest) takes priority over bill of rights under international law... we choose to opt out of developed society and education / health must follow. it helps a lot that the kids who survived infant mortality are voting now... that they are (thanks to their education) so swayed by what they see on tv...
what's to be done? people seem to leave. the most knowledgeable / skilled ones. the problem is mostly that the ones who are left don't seem particularly capable of identifying the skills that are valuable / would help. E.g., the teachers who do talk sense / who are capable of teaching hard stuff vs the teachers who delight in confusing people because they are so sick and tired of being forced to teach students who can't shut their mouths for long enough to allow any person around them to open their ears.
we need gates dinah. otherwise... what little developed we have would be crushed.
the internet... it was better earlier because the people who had computers before were different...
now... every 12 year old wants to offer worldly wisdom... without gates... and then the advertisers came...
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