Academia should be an asylum, a free-for-all/high-risk/high-reward incubator for weirdoes. You tolerate a lot of bad ideas for the sake of a few good ones -- so yes tenure, yes academic freedom, yes protect and subsidize absolute howling bullshit.
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Where this has gone off the rails is that the lunatics have decided they need to rule society. Bullshitstorms are one thing; bullshitstorms full of self-praise about how essential it is that the masses be enslaved to their bullshit is something else again.
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Instead of manufacturing monsters (good), academia is manufacturing courtiers (complete fucking poison). Too much status and way too much money is being pumped into this sewer.
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