Often referred to as a former geologist, 2020 presidential candidate John Hickenlooper wasn’t headed toward a science career until the end of his first degree, a bachelor’s in English literature conferred spring of 1974. He reenrolled as a special student to fulfill math and science prerequisites and finished his geology master’s in 1980.
Midway, age-wise, between Hickenlooper and candidate Andrew Yang — not old or young enough to be other than sibling to either — their stories bookend oblique generational angles, evoking nostalgia for the humanities: to earn an English degree for character or moral development, for instance. Or just for the sake of learning.
Hickenlooper tells about a famous American soap-opera legend neighbor who gifted unlimited clean bedsheet delivery to his mother, a wife immersed in round-the-clock care for her terminally ill husband, after discovering she was laundering up to four times a day.
Andrew Yang, paying tribute, like Hickenlooper, to the advantage of growing up in a good locale, writes that caregiving is one of the few occupations not threatened by robots, adding: “If home health care aides is our answer to the future of jobs, we’re in deep trouble.”
Monday, April 22nd, local, CDT:
Mercury trine natal Mercury 7:25
Andrew Yang (12:00) natal Mercury 7° 46′ Aquarius
John Hickenlooper (12:00) natal Mercury 7° 27′ Aquarius
USA South Node 6° 36′ Aquarius
Andrew Yang natal Saturn 14° 50′ Rx Cancer
John Hickenlooper natal Saturn 14° 48′ Rx Libra
USA Saturn 14° 48′ Libra
Quote: “The War on Stupid People” (July/August 2016)
Image: Cyprus