I really do need to read George Saunders. Adrian Chen at Gawker demands that he writes a novel already.
If you squint, this infographic looks like a New York skyline.
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Now colleges are producing too many elementary school teachers, too. What next? Do we have too many philsophers?
Apt. 11d 
You are going to die.
It seems like every year, people keep starting Ash Wednesday sooner and sooner. We’ve got three weeks still.
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This is close to a George Saunders novel, though in the article is referred to as novella– http://weeksnotice.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-brief-and-frightening-reign-of-phil.html?m=1
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In terms of market supply and demand? Yes, we are producing too many philosophers. In terms of the need to turn a critical philosophical eye to the current state of the world? Not nearly enough…
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And, there’s Brook’s factoid on 50% of the current jobs in political science going to graduates of 12 schools.
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I was joking about the philosophy majors. Interesting that Brooks knew about that study. He is totally reading academic bloggers.
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