Academics don't think Internet will ruin everything. That usually comes from people making the viral thing du jour. Academics tend to know actual history. As for the first versus popularizer—you're judging different games by the same standard. Different incentives.
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I spent enough time two good history depts to get familiar with the non-Twitter version of critical theory, & in fact am now revisiting it in the evenings. I think the point of critical theory is to produce more criticism. They don't build things. They problematize.
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History scholars produce incredible work that's super practical and enormously time-consuming. Honestly, I feel like I'm cheating every-time I read their work. Policy, tech, business... Those are different things.
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You're not understanding a thing I said. Academia is an amazing job, with rewards other than money. It's often super practical in its implications, which is why tech companies are dangling large amounts of money to new grads, especially given academic job market sucks.
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