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[lifetime of listening to complaints about academia, and about half a decade of accumulating some of my own]
That’s super vague and not very academic. 🤠 I was asking about something specific!
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Can you name any domain of human endeavor where grant applications don't get politicised after a few generations?
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I’ll answer after you! 🤠
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is science all political these days?pretty much; it's politics all the way down
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pretty much; it's politics all the way down, until you reach logic; then there is some hope that the oppressed minority of mathematicians who believe that art is dead and mathematics survived by pretending successfully to be a science will survive longer than the death of their beautiful art.
"a little learning" [lifetime of listening to complaints about academia, and about half a decade of accumulating some of my own]