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'STEM' means Stagnation

The most popular educational trend Courses labeled as ‘STEM’ Science, Technology, Engineering, Math Offerings that lead to destruction and wrath Nuclear fusion and fission they aid and abet Not to mention ‘AI,’ which’ll destroy us all yet The more ‘modern conveniences’ we have, the more harried we are Ask folks who bicycle, glad they ditched cars Perhaps we can teach the next generation how best to avoid war through negotiation Failing that, mankind seems doomed to stagnation

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Bill Baker

Date: 7/17/2025 5:55:00 PM

A FAV for my list, Gershon. Mush needed message, my friend. Write On! Bill p.s. I agree with Duke ... POTD material!

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 7/17/2025 2:00:00 PM

Yup!

Duke Beaufort

Date: 7/17/2025 8:06:00 AM

Gershon, I think this deserves poem of the day much more than mine. This brings us to the realm of negative externalities in economics. There are costs to everything that can be hidden for a while. It's quite a thing that is also a tax. Therefore, the opulence we experience may be doing us harm as you point out....it's insidious really. Sending smiles!!

Joe Dimino

Date: 7/17/2025 2:52:00 AM

Interesting, intelligent write. A couple problems I have been unable to solve. Need two sides willing to negotiate. How does one compromise with wrong? US politics, sides have grown so far apart, negotiations are near impossible. Sex change operations on children? Communism? Marxism? People have lost their minds.

Terry Flood

Date: 7/16/2025 4:52:00 PM

An inspired write, G.W. Particularly the AI angle. I stuck my ‘song/poem’ “Will She Be There” into a text to song generator out of interest…. The result was astounding… and scary as hell…. Musically…. The human being may be dead…. [you know, and I know that we’re better than that but when does the fuse get lit?]

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/16/2025 7:34:00 PM

Terry, thanks - and I hear, I hear, I hear. Frightening as hell, what AI can and can't do. Sometimes I just want to scream at those STUPID customer service AI's, yet AI can play Chopin's Polonaise flawlessly. Perhaps it's more like a mongoloid idiot who can do certain tasks amazingly well, but is worthless at most everything else. How 'bout that for a definition, eh? ~ gw

Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 7/16/2025 4:33:00 PM

as a former educator, I highly opposed the introduction of STEM (and a lot of other things); that's why I retired early from teaching...couldn't stomach what I was witnessing

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/16/2025 7:41:00 PM

What if Mikhail Baryshnikov had devoted himself to electrical engineering? What a talent the world would have missed!