CLARK: There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the early colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities especially of the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre- capitalist and...
Will, who at this point has migrated to Chuckie's side and is completely fed-up, includes himself in the conversation.
WILL: Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad
student. You just finished some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison
prob'ly, and so naturally that's what you believe until next month when
you get to James Lemon and get convinced that Virginia and Pennsylvania
were strongly entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 1740. That'll last
until sometime in your second year, then you'll be in here
regurgitating Gordon Wood about the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the
capital-forming effects of military mobilization.
CLARK: (taken aback) Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of--
WILL: --"Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social
distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth..."
You got that from "Work in Essex County," Page 421, right? Do you have
any thoughts of your own on the subject or were you just gonna
plagiarize the whole book for me?
Clark is stunned.
WILL: (cont'd) Look, don't try to pass yourself off as some kind of an
intellect at the expense of my friend just to impress these girls.
Clark is lost now, searching for a graceful exit, any exit.
WILL: (cont'd) The sad thing is, in about 50 years you might start
doin' some thinkin' on your own and by then you'll realize there are
only two certainties in life.
CLARK: Yeah? What're those?
WILL: One, don't do that. Two-- you dropped a hundred and fifty grand
on an education you coulda' picked up for a dollar fifty in late
charges at the Public Library.
Well, you don't even need to worry about that $1.50 in late charges.
The University of California at Berkeley has its own YouTube channel,
with over 300 hours of video already available. Currently dominating
the content are biology and physics (above clip is the first lecture of
"Physics for Future Presidents.)
