Critiquing current practices is one thing some parts of academia should do, but it'd be sad if that were 100% of what it were doing. Precisely. And Dijkstra s

Critiquing current practices is one thing some parts of academia should do, but it'd be sad if that were 100% of what it were doing. Precisely. And Dijkstra seems to take great offense at the critiques traveling in the opposing direction. To wit: Did the writer not know that the use of the term "the real world" is usually interpreted as a symptom of rabid anti-intellectualism, or did he not mind? As a PhD candidate in political science, a good 90% of my colleagues could use a daily injunction to think more about the problems of "the real world," rather than the abstractions of Deleuze and Guattari.