A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions such as London and Cambridge and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance ' on the other hand was written and recorded in only four months so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man one man.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
As a young man I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools educational opportunities will be limited as they are now to affluent families.