But obviously I'll give you a rough idea: 1. having a single person in charge of a field isn't really how progress is made;
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2. a lot of his ideas have been superseded, shown to be misplaced, shown to have diverted linguistics into blind alleys and all this would
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have been noticed sooner if there was more room at the top, than just a single person, as I am sure you can imagine;
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3. is there such a thing as an unbiased curator? I assume you don't think so. why have only 1? that's why I raise dictator interpretation.
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It's not a dictatorship if it's self imposed. People deserve the gods and monsters they choose to mythologise.
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Wow — I think we have very divergent ideas about Putin and Trump then.
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In your OP you asked if it was beneficial to have a curator (which I think means dictator in this context). I answered why I think it's not.
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Also you tend to assume people in a field control who is at the top. A PhD student in linguistics did not chose who is at the top of their
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field. So if they disagree they get pushed/downed out and only the PhDs who kowtow get promoted. Nothing is as simple as we have "chosen".
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And this why people quote "science progresses one funeral/retirement at a time" because of how exceedingly difficult it is to get senior
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academics to release their (in many cases stranglehold) grip on a discipline.
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