week 8 dq response ERIKA HARRIS 

It is interesting how a large number of scholastics is based on the concept of improving the species, however the rewards are based on individual achievements.

At New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; my grandfather was a professor and my grandmother was a career secretary, she stated on several occasions, “you can always tell, the real PhDs from the test PhDs. The real ones are focused almost exclusively on the science, scholastics, and species benefits, the test PhDs only care about the accolades.” (Jeffries, F. n.d.)

The test PhDs do not last long in the field before they are placed in administration. They are placed in “paper pushing” positions, where they can apply their PhD to papers and grant proposals. They can be put in the social settings where they cannot hurt anyone or anything in the lab, but they can make nice with the money people. They can talk and communicate with the donors and the government types but are almost always all thumbs in the lab.

It is interesting that scholastics as a base close to that of eastern philosophy than western, but the western schooling of the money people is needed to pay for the lab work to make the products the money people then use to make themselves even more money.

Fun to the western people is the competitions, money, social interactions (food, shelter, clothing, and interacting with other humans), whereas the fun for scholars is mostly found in the lab and in academic discussions that allow for the exploration of new and interesting ideas.

It is interesting that what western money people consider happiness is in close to direct opposition to what scholars consider happiness. A difficultly is in rather obvious present. It appears that western cultures become offended when what they consider fun is not what scholars consider fun. Despite the fact that scholars produce things which western people depend on, there is an issue between the two in the way they interact. Western people in most cases demand to be interacted with in very specific ways, that in a lot of cases scholars operate from such a different perspective they have no idea of those social rules of order. This awkwardness then offends the western person. It is very interesting; I wonder how many in the west become offended when the way they have fun is not reciprocated. That fun versus offended would be an interesting subject to study.