On student loans and our creative betters:
It’s hard to feel much sympathy for someone – a grown man in his fifties, writing in the New York Times – who believes that paying his debts as agreed, as millions of others do, would entail wasting his life, due to his enormously artistic “usefulness to society,” i.e., his self-imagined talent as a profound and insightful writer. A claim somewhat undermined by his own self-flattering article and its thin rationalisations. The short version of Mr Siegel’s article would be, “Fuck you, taxpayers. I’m an artist and intellectual.” But that wouldn’t present him in the all-important and very much expected Heroic Victim Light.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but narcissism abounds – it may take the form of many pathological self obsessions from vanity to the type of selfie life attitude this guy displays.
Personally I believe this wave of narcissism was generational conditioning received in the 80-90s public pedagogue system where a generation was taught to throw out the old virtues of humility, empathy and temperance for the new self-awareness which makes you the center of the universe. Unapologetic brattiness.
Artists have always been arrogant and self centered but these days its spread beyond the art cult
“I’m an artist and an intellectual.” That and a loon wont get you a cup of coffee. Pheque off.
The Obama/Pelosi shuffle changed the student loan system in ~ 2010
by removing the private sector (Banks) from making the loans and backing all Loans with Taxpayer money. That means that Government (Pelosi) can forgive individual loans, or a presidential Order could wipe them all away… Just waiting for the social engineering justification.
We are entitled to our Entitlements….!
Blah blah blah….throw the pretentious little prick in Jail.
This guy sounds just like Greece!!
“F**k you, taxpayers. I’m an artist and intellectual.”
CAS
“… finds it unfair that other people have had advantages denied him.”
He is a perfect example of a simple mind living in his own tiny world.
As I repeatedly remind my daughters, perspective is everything. If he fell out of a vagina on the African plains, he would be in awe at the luxury in his life today. IMHO, the further we get from having to worry about shelter, water and food the more ignorant *ssholes like this will be created.
Lots of “thumbs up” for that comment,Occam!
I think the old virtues died with the last generation,the WW2 survivors, since then it’s been downhill to the current insanity.
There is no one at the New York Times of any use to society.
Or… Seigel… Seigel… aren’t those the annoying seabirds that eat dead fish and fly all over sh!itting on everything?