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academics, even ones who are "big on twitter," still write to me from time to time to tell me i'm a "fraud" because of my stances on grading, student loans, higher ed, etc. what, pray tell, am i gaining from this fraud? tenure? why, that'd be a worthwhile fraud, a good scam.
i keep track of these folks because maybe someday that list will help naive kids decide which profs NOT to take, either because they'll try to sell them on a nonexistent dream or because they'll destroy them for the slightest deviation from academic conformity
provided they go to college at all, which in my opinion represents neither success nor failure but merely something a person is choosing to do that isn't something else they could be doing
i had one conservative, Hillsdale College-type prof tell me I was "dumbing down" the students (no way, we've always been "dumb" by the standards of this cultured, back-to-the-altar mass guy). but critiques like that I can handle, and i know where that tradcath dude's coming from
it's the "liberal on the tweets, authoritarian under the sheets/robes" types that really bug me, the ones whose various scholarly poses belie the hearts of petty tyrants, absolute dictators in control of safe but worthless realms who won't hesitate to eliminate their foes
to this day, people will mention so-and-so's "important book," and i'll just think, huh, that person wrote to me telling me i was just a grandstanding dimwit trying to skip in the "public intellectual" line without pandering or paying dues
my own politics aren't something i discuss here in the public sphere, but i think the people who make me the uneasiest are the john galt right-wingers (corporate CEOs, for example) posing as low-tax but hella woke liberals and the woke liberals who are really just yuppie hawks
You're making me sentimental about my postgrad years #tickbothboxes
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