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[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You're totally correct about the leftist resentment. Its very prevalent in this industry. "But I was law review... why am I getting canned?" We're in a false meritocracy that creates a whole lotta people who are smart in some compartmentalized arena, but they lack the whole package. The left is chock full of these people - long on theory, short on action. "getting the dough" requires that extra bit of energy the left doesn't want to expend. The lefties are always the kids who'll tell you in a heartbeat that they don't want to shmooze anyone. That's "below them". They're smarter than that. But how smart is someone who doesn't recognize that perpsnal relationships are one of the most important things in one's career? The left seems to believe, because they're wrongly trained by teachers who harbor strong resnetments, that intelligence in the strictest book-derived organizational diligence form is a rare currency which ought to collect a premium. How soon they learn otherwise. Did they really think that there weren't 10 other equally smart people out there selling the same skill set? These lefties then get jaded and develop a hatred for the people who succeed by hustling or working personal networks. They deride self-promoters as showboats. They become threatened judgmental people, and as techincally smart as they may be, they are not palatable to 70% of people. No one wants them around. The left is isolated, and unless higher education starts focusing more on how to give these kids complete skill sets needed for careers, rather than mere theoretical knowledge, there are going to be a lot more of these angry people around bitching about how they have to work for people like Clinton or Bush.

You're sick of other people being smarter than you. We get it.