Attention Parents

Given that our Republic was founded on indivdualistic principles and given that, in theory, we are a meritocracy, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but here it is.

Tell junior to put down the books, put down the violin, and pick up the basketball, football, soccer ball, or baseball. Get your kids on a travel team early. Get them a personal trainer (dance teams and cheerleader camp if they are not completey hopeless on the field or court). If they fail then coaching pays well and remains a meritocracy.

Alternatively, you may want to model your child's upbringing thusly, or encourage him to pick up the electric guitar at an early age so that he or she may follow in the very deep footprints of Mr. Levine. Of course if you do this they will inevitably end up as brain-dead leftists, but they will not want for money.

This is what remains of our meritocracy.

Not to worry, if you choose to raise your children to work hard, study hard, get good grades, and become 'professionals', he or she may luck into a government job such as I have now, where my pay is fixed, but in my government clinic there are many days like today where we keep  losing electical power and have to reboot our computers each time (making it impossible to see patients). I still get paid, so there is that. AND I have time to write a post like this.

But by no means allow them to go into medicine, at least not on the provider side. If they like medicine have them go into medical administration... those jobs will be plentiful, will pay more than provider jobs, and can be obtained with a two-year degree. The pursuit of mediocrity is made more bearable by alcohol, so you may want to introduce them to this early and often. FOREWARD!