When the Unhireables Dream

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Clarissa

September 21, 2015

So who are the people that insist (somewhat shrilly, I might add) that being an unqualified, ignorant outsider is the perfect qualification for a job?

These are the future unhireables, the folks who are vaguely aware that success on the job market is increasingly reserved for the highly qualified and the very educated. They find solace in a fantasy that one day somebody will appreciate them precisely because they have no knowledge, no sophistication, no connections, and no qualifications.

To a large extent, the pool of presidential candidates represents a fantasy that gives solace to those who are in danger of being left behind and slipping into the role of lumpenized unhireables.

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3 responses to “When the Unhireables Dream”

Shakti

September 21, 2015

Does it? The fantasy of an unspoilt, unschooled, inexperienced outsider has been around for a long time

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1. Clarissa
  
  September 21, 2015
  
  Of course, there were always people like these. But today they have become so numerous that they actually put 3 of their symbolic representatives into the race as leading candidates.
  
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  1. Shakti
    
    September 21, 2015
    
    Huckabee (dropped out of seminary) Walker (college dropout) and who else?
    Everyone else in the race has at least a college degree, and most have education past a bachelor’s.
    
    On the other hand, you have a former pediatric brain surgeon (Carson), an HLS grad who edited Harvard Law review (Cruz) and a Rhodes scholar (Jindal) who say such utterly stupid things you would never guess.
    
    I hardly see how having such educated people say such stupid things soothes the lumpens. Would they not realize, “I need a education to even say such stupid things in front of a large audience?”
    Or is it “Even incredibly smart-on-paper people say the same stupid things I think, therefore I’m smart by association?”
    
    If you’re not talking about education, I fail to see the connection. Trump and Fiorina are only outsiders in the sense they’ve never had a political office. In every other sense they’re insiders who have silver spoons in their mouths and golden parachutes for their failures. What lumpen has either?
    
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