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I believe that STEM majors are inherently superior to Humanities majors. CMV.

STEM majors are demonstrably useful: they have countless practical applications. The society we live in today is so great precisely because of the merits of science and technology.

They are also based in truth and fact. In science, one person can be right, and a billion people can be wrong. The person who's right can do experiments, and prove that he's right. Science then changes itself to accommodate this new, correct view, even though so many people thought it was wrong. In the Humanities, determining what's right and what's wrong is literally a popularity contest.

People say that Humanities teach you skepticism, but this isn't the case in my experience. Science is the subject that teaches doubt: I was shown the evidence and explanations behind all scientific theories, and it was impressed upon me never to accept anything as dogma. Whenever I was taught something, I knew that it made sense, and I knew the justifications for it.

In Humanities, I'm constantly told inane bullshit about symbolism, with little to no evidence offered as backing. It seems as if people are unabashedly making things up as they go. I have to come up with bullshit ideas, and then couch them in vagaries and complicated language, so I can obfuscate the utter inanity of what I'm saying.

I'll also never use any of this ever again. There are absolutely no practical applications to literary analysis. People may say that Humanities are a study of culture, and that culture is what makes us human. Well, if that's the case, then why do I have to care about what some academic thinks is important? I can argue that Batman is just as integral to society as something like Pride and Prejudice. Why can't I just read Batman comics all day?

I think that if someone wants to major in a Humanities, he/she should just not go to college and save the money. I could probably learn just as much by buying some famous books, and coming up with dumb explanations about what I think the authors meant.

On an aside, I have an anecdote concerning Humanities and bullshit. I had to read an article for my writing class. It was the most inane, arcane bullshit I've ever read in my life. It read like a retarded kid got a hold of a Thesaurus. The entire article was just vague, unformed ideas, splattered with complicated language. The next day, the T.A. talked about the article. He said that the language was very common to articles in the Humanities, and that in the Humanities, terms like the ones in the aforementioned article would be essential.He basically admitted that in Humanities, you have to use overly-complicated words and try to confuse your readers, instead of using very simple, to-the-point language and teaching them something.

Finally, I don't think that I'm smarter than someone without a STEM major. I really admire craftsman like carpenters and plumbers, because they do difficult, and often disgusting work that I wouldn't be willing to do. They are an integral part of our society.

Of course, I'm also implying that I admire craftsman much more than Humanities majors, because the only thing a Lit major can do when my toilet is clogged is explain how the backed up feces is symbolic of the mire of societal expectations or something retarded like that.

Sorry for rambling and ranting. Writing this was cathartic, in a way. It's still a Change My View though. I would like to see some of your responses.
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Its easy to point at literary criticism as an example of "worthless" humanities but at the very least you should take a look at other humanities fields before dismissing the entire set of fields. Once you see that some humanities fields are worthwhile you might be able to see that literary criticism is useful. 

Imagine we want to try to solve geopolitical problems like the strife between Israel and Palestine. Its going to be **really** hard to accomplish this without understanding the political and social climates and histories of the two nations. This is a situation where history, sociology, and political science are critical to being able to find possible solutions. You aren't going to be able to engineer your way out of this issue. 

What if we want to understand the ethical and legal implications of the NSA spying programs? Are we going to be able to do that with just technical understanding? Absolutely not. The technical details of the NSA programs are far less interesting than the social and political details. We need humanities people to be able to make ethical arguments about technological privacy. In fact, it is really easy to see why we need humanities in our discussions when we see many of the major techie privacy or computer freedom advocates talk. Most of these guys have somewhat reasonable arguments but are unable to present them without coming across like raging assholes. Look at the story of Weev and the legal battle surrounding what he did. The important parts of his situation are not the technical parts but the nontechnical parts. At the very least you should be able to see why having both technical and non-technical expertise is needed in order to be able to deal with these sorts of situations. 

What if you want to decide whether a particular bill is good policy? How will you decide? There isn't some function that we can plug bills into and see if they will benefit society, and even if there was which metrics would you use to define benefit? What if there is a bill that will increase economic freedom at the expense of some other personal freedom? Is that a bill worth passing? How will you argue for or against such a bill. All of these questions fall into the realm of the humanities. 

Even if you say "history, political science, law, sociology, etc are all social sciences so they don't count" you still have the entire field of philosophy which has had massive impact on how we decide to organize our societies. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" was mostly taken from John Locke - a philosopher. 

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Also, there are plenty of academics who study comic books, in particular by using them as a lens through which we can study the periods that they were written in.