Monday, June 9, 2014

If It's Monday, It's Time For "MALADJUSTED"!

We missed it last week, but going forward, there will be at least an attempt to post a MALADJUSTED musing or thought for the day. Because nothing starts the week like scathing social commentary, especially when art can be used to shine a light on an issue, person, or event, or just a trend that seems so bescreweded (not a word; don't look it up) that it qualifies.

Case in point:
According to an article published last week on Yahoo! Education, certain degrees are "overrated" and not as cool as some others. Of course that may not be totally surprising as any high-school junior or senior is constantly being steered into careers that have a certain pedigree. Now, what's different is that the article in question which you can find here, contends that certain careers have a higher rate of unemployment than others. Since being gainfully employed is never not a good thing, people's time and energy should go into careers where there is a lower likelihood of being unemployed. Hey, it's just the Dept. of Labor spinning the numbers, folks. The thing is that careers in graphic design and film, video and fine arts are here perceived as not as cool, but careers in business, marketing, computer science and criminal justice are more secure statistically, and therefore cooler.

And we all want the cool, right?
And we all want to stay employed, right?

But my question is, have we now created a society and culture where a career as a police officer or a jailer is cooler and more desirable than it is to be a filmmaker, or a designer, or an illustrator, or an actor, or a dancer? What does that say about what we value? Does that seem strange to no one but me and my fellow subversives in the arts who could in some perverse reality end up in the hands of those cool police officers and jailers for questioning the order of things? And in case you think it couldn't happen here, what do you think Occupy was about? How do you think it even started?

But anyway, enough ranting from me. Check out the cool graphic, feel free to share it with your networks and at some point, when we have enough of these, we can offer them for sale as posters or T-shirts or mugs or...whatever.

Now without further ado, your weekly dose. Enjoy.

More Later

KCD

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