I don't buy that, either. If the conditioning were truly so powerful as the book claims, you can condition smart people to enjoy jobs that let them do a task for a while and, in their off hours, recreationally indulge their intelect.
Hell, you don't even need conditioning. Loads of smart people work any number of jobs, including ones this book sees as "beneath" them and then go home and write or paint or work on their graduate education or whatever. I feel like this book is also suffering from some kind of fallacy about who does what in the real world - like the classes in the book exist largely because the author, whether they realized it or not, had completely swallowed the idea that, say, the person who cleans his toilet really IS beneath him.
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Date: 2018-01-01 05:35 pm (UTC)Hell, you don't even need conditioning. Loads of smart people work any number of jobs, including ones this book sees as "beneath" them and then go home and write or paint or work on their graduate education or whatever. I feel like this book is also suffering from some kind of fallacy about who does what in the real world - like the classes in the book exist largely because the author, whether they realized it or not, had completely swallowed the idea that, say, the person who cleans his toilet really IS beneath him.