On average, engineers tend to be much more bourgeois than those who are more culturally minded. Not that it's true of all of them, or that all those who fall under the category of culturally minded aren't bourgeois, but from what I've seen engineers tend to display an uncritical attitude toward society, much like a lot of other people. But engineers/scientists are supposed to smart, so they have no excuse. They're concerned mostly with their work, which is generally so far removed from the social setting of politics or culture that they don't recognize or pay attention to what's going on socially, and they don't need to. They're well enough off that they don't need to be critical of the system. They're complacent. To my mind that places them in the group that circles hell in Dante's Inferno. They could be very cool people, but they don't have much to say on life, only computers, motors, etc. They're lame in this respect.
― nef, Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link