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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Replying to @david_kenneth_d
The ideas aren't gone but incentives of power dominate because that's what power does. Government thought it could order up N million units of technology, so people showed up to take the orders.
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Most STEM departments at research universities are dominated by factory-style labs, where one lead investigator battery-farms graduate students who churn out garbage papers based on the boss's particular grift; the boss gets his name on every publication for free.
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what would be best way to fix it all
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