46. "Doin' a PhD, in an office of 15 PhD students..." In response to In response to 0
...and yup, the theoritically most educated folk in my country (New Zealand) still clamour to see Shrek, Pirates, Spiderman etc... But I don't think it's bad or should be a surprise.
I think the problem is that people with educations like to assume they're somehow superior in ALL ways, when they're so obviously not. I've got almost a decade of high-achieving university education under my belt, but can I:
a) Do more to my car than change tyres/oil/petrol? b) Fix a plumbing problem? c) Hammer right?
Nope. Book smarts don't equal necessary intelligence I don't reckon.
Music/books/movies especially suffer from the pseudo-snobbery of the generally educated, whereas the fact is that unless you're actually into a media, you're just as ignorant as everybody else; best example: Dan "Cliff-hanger every second half-assed page) Brown.