ivy
October 8, 2005 @ 12:58 amIf this is not my last post of the day, then I’m a huge huge nerd. Tesa sent me a great article by Malcolm Gladwell full of interesting things like the history of Ivy League admissions policies, anti-semitism, the future career success of recruited athletes or luxury brand management. Some of it is old news, some of it is intriguing anecdotes.
Being the negative nancy I am, I found this article as delightful and original as watching the latest Stephen King made for TV movie. Gladwell succeeds in weaving together blase/passe/tired old tidbits about the Jewish-quota at Harvard, “legacies”, athletes admission rate and ROI-return by tieing it together with the idea of ivy leagues as a “branding” tool. How quaint of this Gladwell.
On this brand management thing - Egad man, you mean people look at a Harvard/Stanford/Berkeley grads differently from those of SF State and DeVry? And just maybe, the gatekeepers are aware of this? No $hit really?
Mr. Tipping Point strikes us again with his genius. The only interesting thing about Gladwell’s writtings are not what he actually says, but how he says it: Indeed, the genius of Gladwell is in attractively packaging things we already know intuitively and pass it off as innovative insight.
Comment by MisterDarcy — October 9, 2005 @ 12:21 am
Man I was an ass in the last post.
I should be the token Republican columnist at the NYT, going head to head against Maureen Dowd. Yet in the end, Maureen and I would wind up together as forbidden lovers, drawn together with energetic passion and our exotic/differing political backgrounds. But will the differences that fuel our passion ultimately drive us apart?
Will this love last (and is it really love?) or will it be torn asunder by our diametrically opposite political views. Will Love Truely Conquer All?
Stay tuned…
Comment by MisterDarcy — October 9, 2005 @ 12:43 am