who do they think they are?

i went for a public lecture last evening, and these 2 architects just about bored the pants off me (not literally, duh). sometimes these professionals can be so full of themselves. somehow, architects rank highly on the list of usual suspects. what gives this breed of designers an edge over others of the creative field, that they think they have the propensity for higher, more publicised ideals than the rest? equally perplexing is how they feel they have to talk about themselves and their works and their beliefs all the time, leaving little room for differences.

it could be that blind faith in one's ideals that spur one on to greater achievements. maybe. if you are/were a nazi. but there is always the flip side. more than one sets of theories nearly always exist . only with luck can one be at the top. there is only one philippe starcke, or one marc newson. where does one go with all that bigoted, one-minded belief if you are only mediocre? perhaps, in order to rise to the top, you have to take a lot of crap from everyone, and then when you've reached the pinnacle, you can afford to be egocentric/eccentric. only then will people fall over themselves at your feet, and accept you for all your brilliance.

teaching (expecially in the field of design, or the arts) has always daunted me, by sheer virtue of the unqualifiable nature of design. who is to say for certain if one idea is better than another? who is the lecturer to judge the value of a student's work? experience has a limited role. there are just so many ideas taking off tangentially that, worrying about the outcome will almost always cloud your judgements of the most important issue: the basic concept.

just for the record, i'm not a nazi. my geminiian instincts may endow me, at times, with nazi-like ideals, but putting thought into action is just out of the question. i remain a motivated slacker.

The Expatriate Achtung! You are 38% brainwashworthy, 36% antitolerant, and 33% blindly patriotic

Congratulations! You are not susceptible to brainwashing, your values and cares extend beyond the borders of your own country, and your Blind Patriotism ("patriotism" for short) does not reach unhealthy levels. In Germany in the 30s, you would've left the country. One bad scenario -- as I hypothetically project you back in time -- is that you just wouldn't have cared one way or the other about Nazism. Maybe politics don't interest you enough. But the fact that you took this test means they probably do. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt. Did you know that many of the smartest Germans departed prior to the beginning of World War II, because they knew some evil shit was brewing? Brain Drain. Many of them were scientists. It is very possible you could be one of them, depending on your age. Conclusion: Born and raised in Germany in the early 1930's, you would not have been a Nazi.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 61% on brainwashworthy You scored higher than 59% on antitolerant You scored higher than 51% on patriotic

Link: The Would You Have Been a Nazi Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid