Geoffrey MillerVerified account

I have to confess that I was very wrong about academia. It's much worse than I imagined.

It's been a long, slow frog-boiling exercise. Wokeness happens imperceptibly, softly, slowly ... and then all at once it takes over and abuses its power. 'Cthulhu may swim slowly. But he only swims left.' -- Moldbug.

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.

It's essential to see that critiques of MSM, unframed by "...but OBVIOUSLY better than Limbaugh/Hannity" and critiques of the academy unframed by "...but OBVIOUSLY better than Liberty U" end up driving ppl towards straight propaganda.

Nah. New media offer excellent scholars and disparate voices where you can do deep dives into interesting topics. They also smash artificial and sometimes corrupt barriers to entry. There are charlatans/bullshitters of course but intelligent earnest folks can tell the difference.