I have to confess that I was very wrong about academia. It's much worse than I imagined.
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Academia & legacy media are by far the best institutions we've got. Do they have problems? Sure. But IMO "burn it all down" and/or "it's irremediably broken" is a very dangerous response. You think OAN is better than the NYT? Liberty U is better than Harvard? Come now.
'very dangerous' for who? By what metrics? Compared to what counterfactuals?
The status quo is very dangerous for anyone in academia who doesn't stand in solidarity with whatever happen to be the current @DNC talking points.
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there aren't a lot of "metrics" in the first two tweets that I'm responding to... My point is simple: Is the goal *critique*—which, okay!—or is it destroying trust entirely? If the latter, I'm saying it's naive to think people won't end up trusting even worse institutions.
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Every critique right now is necessary. It is symptomatic that more and more the total abandonment of these fields is talked. The continuity of the actual tendency is what will bring it's destruction. Anyone who is against a deep reform is just contributing to it's destruction.
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the punishment for even wanting to discuss the legitimacy of dogma is extreme.
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