I'm not sure I see under what system classics - or any field of academic work - wouldn't have to make its case to *someone.* We don't farm our own food, we don't build our own buildings. We're going to need, at some point, to exchange our classics for someone else's bread.
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Tämä twiitti ei ole saatavilla.
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A technocratic state can disintermediate those voters, but then we need to reach out to those technocrats. To be fair, reaching out to aristocrats under oligarchic forms of government is a historical classical strength, but I rather like democracy.
But no matter what the economic or political system in place here, you're still going to end up with 'academics will need to make the case for their relevance and usefulness to people who are not them' because that's how specialization works.
