Yeah... someone else on my friends page posted this earlier as a very serious "this is why you shouldn't do a humanities PhD"- maybe because I'm partly annoyed with all the doom and gloom and bile I've been reading from this person lately, I actually found I couldn't watch more than a minute or so of this. Though I may try again if there is something about Bloom ;)

I did think the Derrida one from a while back was funny, but then again, I think everything about Derrida is funny.

This movie kind of gave me hope. I thought that the number of people getting tenure-track jobs was much lower.

(I'm with Shannon on the percentage figure. I kind of assume the tenure idea will be gone by the time I get a job!) And as a former Yalie, I can tell you that is 100% true about Harold Bloom.

I don't know. It must have just come out as someone unrelated in my program also posted it on facebook. I watched it and was amused at some bits (mostly the way the text-to-speak program makes them sound, it was an excellent use of that mechanical-sounding voice, especially for the student) but also annoyed more generally. Every job has political and bureaucratic issues. It's just a function of how people get together and operate. Sure, people question the value of the humanities... how much more do they question the value of the mid-level advertising flunkie? Or the random budget guy at a random corporation? There are good things to hold onto as well.

...sorry. I've got several rants kind of building up since I haven't been posting to the LJ (laugh/shakes head)