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Old 31-01-2010, 10:37 PM
el_draco (Rom)
Politically incorrect.

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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous View Post
I remember a short story published years ago in 'OMNI' magazine.
The law had changed so that academics and engineers were effectively the servants of a monumentally stupid underclass. Uni degrees could be earned in fishing, car-waxing, cosmetics, women's studies, sociology, etc etc.
Anyone with a shred of academic or intellectual prowess was streamed into a special programme and brainwashed into thinking they owed the vast unwashed their expertise.
It was funny at the time. But now.....
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