I should perhaps add,

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on the issue of doing a Ph.D., that the Ph.D. idea I tossed around in the previous entry differs from the kind of Ph.D. I rejected in my previous Ph.D. entry insofar as it - at least theoretically, if I did a good job - would actually address the current crisis, and possibly enable me to confront that crisis more effectively. Whereas a Ph.D. about comics, much as I would love to do it (and I would!), probably wouldn't have much of a chance of improving the world in any currently significant manner.

Speaking of comics - Finder, the comic about which I wrote my thesis, won an Eisner award recently! The Eisners are sort of the Oscars of the comics field. :-) (I'd put a link here but Finder's website seems to be broken at the moment.)

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Whereas a Ph.D. about comics, much as I would love to do it (and I would!), probably wouldn't have much of a chance of improving the world in any currently significant manner

Heh. Speaking as someone handing in their Thesis on Friday, I'd just like to point out that there are very, very few theses that actually change the world in that way at all! ;)

...do one if you're interested and would like to - I'd say those are the most important reasons.

*goes back to word counting*

I would, if I didn't think there was an urgent global crisis.

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But under the circumstances, I can't just spend three or four years doing something just because I like it. I need to do something useful. Can't leave this to 'the experts' because there aren't enough people by far, at the moment, to effect the kind of change we need. So we need every pair of hands and every brain. Anyone who's aware of the problem needs to do whatever they can, and sadly, I'm too aware of it to ignore it.