This is the muse I thought of last week and almost lost due to the brain suckage at work. I seriously think I’d be better off if I moved into the stairwell with just my laptop and a recliner. Anyways, I’m having a discussion with someone last week and something occurs to me. There are lots of people, more and more every year that are going into science related fields. Things like Comp Sci, EE, ME and even things like chem., bio and medicine. That’s fine, don’t get me wrong, but the thing that worries me is an almost complete disregard for what might be referred to as ‘classical studies’ – How many people do you know that majored in History? Anthropology? Archeology? Right. And how many of them serve you fries on your way home? I wonder if our society is becoming so technically slanted that classical studies are in jeopardy of being lost. I know, there are a few stalwart holdouts that still believe that 17th century poets are worth of study, but by and large, I worry that in 50 years, we’re not going to have people digging in Egypt, piecing together lost civilizations in the Amazon, or poring over ancient latin texts by candlelight at Miskatonic U. Do you think that’s a valid concern? I mean, I don’t specifically have a use for someone to translate ancient greek and Aramaic texts to me, but I feel content somehow knowing that there are people out there who can. The next time I’m confronted with a star vampire, or a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis, I might need that person, unlikely as such an occurance would be. And if that person doesn’t exist… then what?

—–