I'm skeptical that universities ever had any focus but mainstream power. Academia just happens to be a sector that scaled up at a time when using reason to seek truth *was* the rising orthodoxy ready to be cemented by a new institution.https://twitter.com/Quillette/status/1113441160373075968 …
@Malcolm_Ocean, plausible hemisphere connection here: academia was always fundamentally left hemisphere = grasping for power
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Yeah, feels like there's something to this.

(To those not familiar, we're not talking about the misguided 50-year-old theories of rationality vs emotion, but rather Iain McGilchrist's more recent synthesis of a ton of further research.)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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