Snake oil came first. By a likely ~ +50k years


The entire path re professionalism, in all possible ways... is rooted in the thing that came first ---- snake oil. Something that was in play the whole time....of predating ideas on professionalism -----for a likely 50,000 plus years.

To attack the very thing that bought about and formed -hell no, Defines- human intellect?

Study suggests shamans acted as the first professional class in human society
 
Could be an interesting discussion but I expect degeneration will set in quite soon.
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There is a lots of past going on here. It takes some time to gather past. Lots of military talk, too. Who would have guessed it is on the fuse vs. wire direction vs. timbre forum. Nothing wrong with a little lighter topic, especially on a self-indulgent thread like this.
mapman15,539 posts12-13-2018 9:58pmStop living in the past and bragging about all the demerits and get back to current business, ie spewing nonsense repeatedly and non stop.

>>>Take a happy pill and stop obsessing about me. ‘Tis the season to be jolly. 😃
Was Einstein a shaman? Galileo? As the lines get blurry between classical physics and quantum mechanics and between physics and metaphysics it’s perhaps best to recall Arthur C. Clark’s observation, A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Bureaucracy.. I remember at my job we had a small  computer program glitch, but an annoying one. Naturally the rules said we had to tell our supervisor, who would pass the info along. Months go by, nothing. When a coworker griped about it again, I sent an email to my supervisor, but accidentally sent it to 'all'. naturally I got ripped for doing so. (even though idiots in other areas would send out such 'memos of they will be on vacation, or out of office for the afternoon to all, endlessly. when I sent back emails saying thank you for letting me know such important news and how I loved spending time reading drivel... you know what happened)  Long story short the computer glitch problem was taken care of immediately. Seemed my to all got to the person who could DO something. naturally this infuriated the supervisor, who forevermore treated me like some dust bunny under a desk.(actually the nasty attitude was caused by a expensive gizmo she wanted to buy for the department. I said the gizmo was junk and a scam to rip off idiots. She bought it anyway, and discovered it was a scam to rip off idiots. She never forgave me for proving she was an idiot.)