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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the hate against liberal arts [b]is not a bug but a feature[/b] of a system that more and more seems to be capitalizing on people’s fears so the status quo isn’t challenged.  And I say this as someone who works in a science based/“practical” field.[/quote]
Side note: Why is this phrase so popular now? Within the past year or two, everything is said to be "not a bug but a feature."

The status quo would be to keep the liberal arts departments, wouldn't it? They're eliminating departments that fewer students are majoring in bc they don't need as many profs to teach those classes, since not as many students are taking the classes. [/quote]

It's bot language. [/quote]

It's derived from gaming. Actually. Specifically, I believe, EverQuest: "not a bug but a feature" describes an accidental result from coding that isn't going to be fixed. Its meaning has been somewhat inverted since.

I don't see the point of a stem-focused society. They write terrible literature, create bad art, and have really boring cocktail party conversation. You can argue that humanities aren't "profitable," but only because you lack the vision to understand what a world based entirely on zero-sum humans all focused on engineering and their army of desperate company town servants would look like.

I'm in a writer's group with a lot of STEM graduates. Bright people. Nice folks. Bad at world building.

There's quite a lot to be said for the joy of learning something for its own sake. Studying something you're passionate about because you love it. I'm truly sorry you sad engineers will never know it,  and even sorrier when I have to edit the crap you write. [/quote]

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