asciilifeform: simpler than this, even, usgocracy has no provision for arbitrary cuts. given as anybody arbitrarily excluded from whatever ends up forming interest group, 'pumping his rights', etc. and buluceala.
asciilifeform: (which is nominally 'infinite' and 'hyoooman right!1111' etc)
asciilifeform: the added lolspice is also from usg's inability to admit that, e.g., princeton admission, is ration of nomenklatura membership
asciilifeform: which is what BingoBoingo's link was about, aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well no shit. but the usg variant specifically lacks a mechanism for 'you are competent but sorry we're out of jam'
asciilifeform: they ~will~ have one. it is, to use mircea_popescutronic terminology, simply a question of how thick the spiked club they will be raped with until submitting.☟︎
asciilifeform: so knowing all of this, it is quite obvious, the americans do not want a 90%-chinese nomenklatura 20yrs from now.
asciilifeform: these issue faux 'master degree' in fields like 'homeland security.'
asciilifeform: the third type, included here for completeness, is 'spam school', a straight chumpatron perpetrated largely on uppity proles. formerly cornered by places like 'strayer' but now the big boiz are expanding into the market.
asciilifeform: these are not really schools in the ordinary sense. yes, you can take classes, but it is nearly impossible to flunk, and really admission to, e.g., yale, is equiv. of nomenklatura membership.
asciilifeform: another, smaller (people-wise, financially - mega-hedgefunds, as described in l0gz) is the 'privates'
asciilifeform: that is where most folks go. incl. asciilifeform.☟︎
asciilifeform: one, the largest, is the public unis - most of which originally began as late 19th c. land grants, and formerly taught useful things - agronomy, mining, metallurgy, etc.
asciilifeform: for n00bz: there are really three types of higher ed racket in usa.
asciilifeform: the american college racket illustrates this better than anything else i could think of
asciilifeform: the basic unsolvable boojum here is that 'meritocracy' is ultimately a form of buluceala.☟︎
asciilifeform: so the armenians ended up filling all the juicy posts. for a while.
asciilifeform: the ottoman empire, iirc, never invented quotas.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: similar situation with 'jew quota' in su. 'officially' it never existed. in practice, any serious institute where the management did ~not~ quietly implement one, would rapidly turn ~80% jew and the brass would have to confront party official asking 'why are you running a synagogue here'☟︎
asciilifeform: lulzily, ro embassy had a ludicrous display titled something like '100 years of usa-romania fellat^H^H^H^H^Hriendship'
asciilifeform: where on both sides of the table there is a nod and wink, because 'everybody knows'
asciilifeform: somebody... (vaclav havel ?) had a spiffy essay, long ago, re how inca empires invariably fall into having a set of officiose idiocies, enumerated expressions like this.
asciilifeform: and can jurov tell us what it is in cz ?
asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu ! how do we say that iconic utterance in ro!? )
asciilifeform: sorta like ye olde 'по просьбе трудящихся...' !
asciilifeform: where there is not so much resource to go around
asciilifeform: might be specifically true in dying cultures
asciilifeform: the obscure crackpots writing into a drawer - are generally harmless.
asciilifeform: a kind of 'dog in the manger' in just about every case i've personally dealt with
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466554 << arguably, ~old men~ in whatever form, tend to wreak havoc on whatever it was that they meaningfully contributed to as young men - think of millikan, say. the 'eminent scientist emeritus' is, typically, a revolting specimen☝︎
