Interesting article. Gets better after the intro, which is the author bragging about how he was a smart kid (yawn). I roll me eyes a bit at two things: one, the use of depression as an excuse not to achieve, and the arguments about economic systems. Still good essay tho. https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1313976024691023872 …
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2/ The point about the non pecuniary virtues of education, as education as, to some degree, an end, not a means, is good. Or, rather, learning, not education, bc learning can happen without an institution The universities are, to some degree, neoliberal. Not on surface level
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3/ As in supporting neoliberal politics, but at a more fundamental level - a weird welding of the virtues or mood of impractical idealism with numbers driven optimization and careerism. It parallels woke capitalism, but coming at the synthesis from the other side.
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4/ And in this way, some of the half mad eccentrics chronicled in the article are more true to the professed ethos of the universities than the universities themselves are. Holy fools, outside the cloister walls.
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