Carrol Cox:
> 'Nuf said. Nothing very interesting can follow this grotesque concept.
In my trade (computer programming) there has been an attempt to professionalize the craft for some time, so one can see some of them cogs and pulleys before they're covered up. An important component of the project is to limit entry to the field by imposing arbitrary educational and performance barriers which include various kinds of submission to authority. Others are, of course, the establishment of an arcane jargon, a body of recondite tradition, and the inculcation of an ideology of peculiar superiority. However, there will never be programmer shows on TV the way there are doctor and lawyer shows until they can get programmers to dress more expensively and stop consuming Chinese fast-food takeout and cold coffee.
Ah, it is indeed grotesque.