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DB's avatar

Agree. I realize that when I was finishing my bachelor's degree, that they use students as canon fodder. I remained because I like science and couldn't picture myself working on other thing, besides I'm pretty stubborn and I still associate leaving as defeat. Now, more or less ten years later I am finishing my PhD, and still in the same conundrum, thinking what to do after that. Things have gotten worse. The corona nonsense is like the final nail in the coffin, academia is rotten.

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L.P. Koch's avatar

Great breakdown informed by real life, thanks. I'm asking myself - is the academy doomed and will be replaced eventually by something else, or a variety of different approaches? My guess is yes. There are just so many problems you don't even know where to start, ranging from stiffling paradigms (left-wingism, materialism, historical and philosophical illiteracy...) to unreadable prose and authoritarian-burocratic journal policies to vast amounts of corruption and wrong incentives...

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