The Young Proffessionals

    I have reason to sit for a short time each day amidst the housing for those getting their Master's degrees. It's well maintained, well secured and lovely. Those who come and go are cookie-cutter look a-likes. They remind one of the Ken and Barbie dolls.
    I noticed a man walk through a room I was sitting in. "Who is he?", I asked. "The one in charge of the money" came the reply. He was a very young cookie-cutter type hired by an organization of much older people. A picture began to form of how the older ones who have had all the money all these years have their replacements well groomed and being put into place to make sure things are run the same way as in their day.
    It was given to me to note that their young age coupled with a focus on learning, there is no experience to add dimension of perspective, wisdom, compassion to their positions. They are typically very narrow minded boasting an open mind. They follow the rules, fill out the forms and everything "goes their way". That means life is good, all is well for them. Even if they don't feel it, they'll insist on it vehemently because it's the way things "should" be or "need to be" or "are".
   These "Young Professionals" not only have exclusive apartments to dwell in while they get their Master's degrees, but an entire corridor of the town in which I dwell is being set aside, rezoned and constructed as housing for them when they graduate. It's referred to as "The Young Professionals" corridor. So, their physical lives are being built just before they fill them and of course the cost will be in their range. That means those constructing the housing know exactly what the young professionals will be making and what their expenses will be, such as malpractice insurance..........thought was introduced to my mind at this point "why don't the people who give out those degrees pay for the malpractice insurance of the 'young professionals'?".
   They are not of a charector I would trust; having a certificate, degree, diploma, doctorate, only tells me how much longer you allowed someone else to dictate what and how to think than I did. It tells me how long you let someone else feed you a prescribed perception. There's no experience to certify wisdom, compassion, morality. Yet, the world sees a degree as making someone trustworthy. People will trust a doctor despite the doctor not focusing and knowing their own body but instead being told how to view and treat someone else's body. It is said "If you can't keep your own household in order, what business do you have ordering someone else's?". The cookie-cutters all work out, so they'll insist they treat their bodies well (again, it's because someone told them that's treating a body well).
  So, I let that train of thought go. That much time on what is unwanted brings the vibe down. Synchronistically, later in the day a woman was trying to force my daughter to respond to her despite my warning "They're resentful about being in school and not as friendly as usual". I told the woman t please respect my daughter's "no". She turned to my daughter and said "But I'm a teacher and teacher's are safe". "That's not right, that's no guarantee", I responded and stepped between them so she'd stop stalking my daughter. (in my head: "How many teachers every year are arrested for sexual abuse of students?". The topic of insuring those you give those degrees to arrives again! Must have been introduced for my reflection earlier in the day to make me well grounded for this later moment. Or the later moment was designed to cement in or not this new thought. If I cement it in, that means if I choose to get a certificate or degree, it won't necessarily put me in a position of greater authority aka money. It only means that after all my experience and self education, I agreed to allow someone to tell me what answers to give long enough to get a degree. None of this is to say there is no wisdom or true knowledge in schools or colleges. I am sure there is some true education going on in there. It's just so diluted compared to the programming, it's only the rarest student who is going to let it strike them. Even then it creates a schizophrenia if they continue in their college education after exposure and supporting the programming by agreeing to the lifestyle. Or, they drop out.
   But maybe, just maybe, requiring those handing out those degrees to pay the insurance on those they give them to might change that disparity. An age of emotional intelligence is beginning.