I'm doing stuff for peer-review; a friend dropped by chatting about his resurrection upon reading his icon model - 什么叫精致利己主义精英?

"Read what he wrote, but don't look at his life as you're disappointed - a bad role model.

Do hear just what they said, but see what they did. I's very disappointed, taken by surprise with this stuff. It got upside down for their images in my mind based on reading a few lines of his poems and anecdotes. If you don't know much about this guy, don't feel regret as he doesn't deserve, not

worth getting your attention.

Quite disappointing: Some guys are like  the more the you know ,  the more respect you got. For some, the opposite is true.""  

His sad face has vividly resurfaced - I wonder why. I vaguely remember what's been said.

"胡适大节全无，小节全碎！最佳损友！不愧是中国公知祖师爷，是中国公知前进路上一座不可逾越的丰碑！"

"旧伦理中新思想的师表, 新文化中旧道德的楷模" - said all.

什么叫精致利己主义精英? Definition? All for me, me for me; you can't do nothing about me.

But How?

Take home message?

William Deresiewicz, writer of New Republic article, "Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League," speaks about his new book, "Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite & The Way to a Meaningful Life," is a rangy and urgent diagnosis of the compromised higher-education system in the United States.

on parenting and teaching, I wonder if parents and teachers want more "精致的利己主义者和常青藤的绵羊" (exquisite egoist and ivy league sheep)."

My take was you're swamped in seas of and got lost in information, education can't help/guide. What can you have? it's your“intuition” and “hunches” as acceptable guides to life decisions.

Never misled by "elites" - so?

William Deresiewicz: "Probably people have always tried to plan their lives in some way to the extent that they can. I mean, who wouldn’t? But I do think the tendency has become hypertrophied among the contemporary

upper-middle-class: the idea that life can be rendered predictable, reduced to an orderly succession of

achievements that will guarantee security and comfort. Breaking students out of that

mentality,

getting them to understand that a successful life necessarily involves a degree of uncertainty

and risk, as well as of serendipity and intuition, is one of the most important functions that

colleges and mentors can perform." (https://harpers.org/blog/2014/08/william-deresiewicz-on-excellent-sheep/ )
 

** Ref.**

"胡适之去世，蒋公送了一个挽联。上书：【旧伦理中新思想的师表 新文化中旧道德的楷模】

    蒋公，你真是……多大仇啊？送这样的挽联？"

http://bbs.sciencenet.cn/thread-1581523-1-1.html

"蒋公给胡适的任务是【去美国进行抗战宣传。】胡适之到了美国后怎么做的呢？鬼子侵华采取三光政策，胡适之在鬼子侵华期间任驻美大使采取四不政策：【不宣传，不借款，不买军火，不办救济事业】。

  那位说了，李爷，胡适之外交“四不政策”，不等于啥事不做吗？六不了哈！那他整天在美国干嘛？

     答：忙着逮波斯猫 (博士帽)。

     1939年，哥伦比亚大学授予胡适之名誉法学博士。

     1940年，美国8所大学分别授予胡适8个名誉法学博士学位。

     1941年，胡适在美国被授予博士学位5个，还抽空在加拿大弄了2个！

     1942年是胡适又弄了10顶博士帽，都是美国大学授予的。

          抗战最艰苦的几年，胡适之在美国一共弄了26个波斯猫 (博士帽)！

         蒋公那个气啊！我派你去干啥去了啊？派你去逮波斯猫的吗？

     所以，1942年，蒋公说：【胡适乃今日文士名流之典型，而其患得患失之结果，不惜借外国之势力，以自固其地位，甚至损害国家威信而亦在所不惜。】

1960年10月13日，蒋公在日记里写道：【此人实为一个最无品格之文化买办，无以名之，只可名曰‘狐仙’，乃为害国家，为害民族文化之蟊贼。】

   1962年3月3日“上星期反省录”，蒋公写道：【胡适之死，在革命事业与民族复兴的建国思想言，乃除了障碍也。】

      蒋公的眼光啊！！！真准！"
~~~ Ref. 2 ~~
Curiosity-driven: Those big boys [http://bbs.sciencenet.cn/thread-1581523-1-1.html  ]

胡适在他的《宣统与胡适》一文那句“他称我先生，我称他皇上”，也佐证了胡适之的兴奋之情和骄傲之感。  老骄傲了！皇上叫我先生！我喊他皇上！皇上起身迎接我，我鞠躬谢皇上！

“皇上”召见“先生”后，胡先生给庄士敦写信#泪纷飞#：

“不得不承认，我很为这次召见所感动。我当时竟能在我国最末一代皇帝——历代伟大的君主的最后一位代表的面前，占一席位！”

这，就是新文化运动的领袖胡适之，在废帝面前的表现——活脱脱的一奴才！奴颜婢膝！

为此，直到1931年10月，上海《申报》还恶搞了胡适之，登载《蒋召见胡适之》。鲁迅鲁大爷看到这则恶搞后，趁机恶搞了下胡适之。鲁大爷下手，比李大爷狠啊！各位瞧瞧：

“中国向来的老例，做皇帝做牢靠和做倒霉的时候，总要和文人学士扳一下子相好。做牢靠的时候是‘偃武修文’，粉饰粉饰；做倒霉的时候是又以为他们真有‘治国平天下’的大道。当‘宣统皇帝’逊位到坐得无聊的时候，我们的胡适之博士曾经尽过这样的任务（鲁大爷下手，狠啊！）。见过以后，也奇怪，人们不知怎的先问他们怎样的称呼，博士曰：‘他叫我先生，我叫他皇上。’现在没有人问他怎样的称呼。为什么呢？因为是知道的，这回是‘我称他主席嘛（很明显恶搞胡适之的【他称我先生，我称他皇上……】’。安徽大学校长刘文典教授，因为不称‘主席’而关了好多天，好容易才交保出外，老同乡，旧同事，博士当然是知道的，所以，‘我称他主席’。（《二心集·知难行难》）
*** Ref. 3 ***

江湖上黑白两道不管你多无节操，都得遵守一个行规：【朋友妻不可欺】。
  江湖上黑白两道不管你多无节操，都要遵守一个行规：【兔子不吃窝边草】。

  胡适之去世，蒋公送了一个挽联。上书：【旧伦理中新思想的师表 新文化中旧道德的楷模】

    蒋公，你真是……多大仇啊？送这样的挽联？

     所谓【旧伦理中新思想的师表】，就是婚姻对胡适来说就是篱笆墙，抽空他就钻出去偷腥了……

  所谓【新文化中旧道德的楷模】，就是胡适之找了小三，又糟糠之妻不下堂 (胡适在杭州，与曹诚英同居。原来胡适在同江冬秀婚礼的时候，就看中了比自己小11岁的伴娘曹诚英。曹怀孕了，为了所谓真正的爱情，离婚了，北上找胡适，逼婚。同现在小三逼婚一个节奏， 这就是蒋公挽联【旧伦理中新思想的师表】的来源。[ok]) ((：【兔子不吃窝边草】。胡博士可好，专啃窝边草！曹诚英是胡适三嫂的妹妹，胡适江冬秀婚礼的伴娘。我们的胡博士在婚礼上就盯上了窝边草！徐志摩妻朋友妻，胡博士啃窝边草！果然好基友，靠的！

   嗯。胡适写信告诉妻子，只是给他白天做做饭。他不敢说，晚上还做做爱。弄不灵清的江冬秀还写信给胡适：【小曹身体不大好，你不要一直用她。最好再请个保姆。】其实，胡博士经常和小曹去野餐。哎！女人啊！男人为什么要对不住女人呢？！！！//@DamaoWoo：听说和曹在山洞里住一个月？

   哼哼！以前一起在巴黎的时候叫人家小甜甜，遇到林徽因就说人家不浪漫！转身又去追陆小曼！陆小曼一声轻叹：【李爷，你看，不能都怪我啊！】

   好吧，贵圈很乱！

   综上，胡适大节全无，小节全碎！最佳损友！不愧是中国公知祖师爷，是中国公知前进路上一座不可逾越的丰碑！""

  也难怪，胡适之1922年才入宫……

  上一篇《胡适的那些事儿——818中国公知祖师爷胡适之》专谈的胡适大节问题，揭开了胡适唬人的面具。

  最近比较忙，就不单独写了，把今天上午的微博拉过来，扒掉胡适之的内裤。

~~~~ Ref. 5 ~~~~~~~`

Oct 29, 2015 - 曾在耶鲁任教的威廉·德雷谢维奇的新书《精致的利己主义者和常青藤的绵羊》，在书中将美国的精英大学生称为“优秀的绵羊”，这个称号，

William Deresiewicz is an American author, essayist, and literary critic. Born in 1964 in Englewood, New Jersey, Deresiewicz attended Columbia University before teaching English at Yale University from 1998-2008.Wikipedia

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Paperback – May 26, 2015. ... A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges - higher education to the woodshed.   - the “entitled mediocrity” of the Ivy League.