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What is it about engineers that has so many assuming other disciplines comprised of lifetimes of scholarship are trash and can be replicated with the effort of one arrogant human's hobby efforts?

Answer: conflation of academia's failure with the discipline itself.

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I don't think that's the right answer. I think that people simply don't engage with the academic discipline at all. My wife is a professor in the humanities and she sees this all the time with engineering students. They'll make big bold claims about the field that are wrong and can be addressed by reading almost anything but they refuse to even take that step.

You demonstrate that English is not an STD. Academia vs Discipline. One is institution one is practice. I understand it's the weekend but lay off the beer.

Ah, the failure is yours, but the downvote is mine. And you wanted to converse in a philosophy thread? It's almost as if you are proving why programmers are on average poor thinkers. Too used to the computer and herd mentality to actually think without a prompt.

I downvoted you not for being wrong, but for being condescending.

And this is why the West has failed. Because even in the most educated forum online, you prefer malicious decorum over crude logic.

I prefer constructive dialogue over masturbatory theater.

If this were a movie you'd be the guy in good will hunting trying to name drop to pick up chicks.

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