Taking this Scott Alexander piece as a jumping off point - left wing ideas are under selective pressure to be popular with people aspiring to power - not to function. The actual problem with academia is that for society to function it needs to brutally demolish left-wing ideas.https://twitter.com/JeffreyASachs/status/1341798610141409287 …
Yep - and he still can't allow himself to clearly hear / understand the argument which is that left ideas are under selective pressure to allow a specific class to cohere long enough to loot everything rather than that they're under general pressure to be "popular"