You're latching onto a set of kinda transparently obvious joke papers [1] written by clearly accomplished individuals [2] and claiming that the whole institutio

You're latching onto a set of kinda transparently obvious joke papers [1] written by clearly accomplished individuals [2] and claiming that the whole institution is rotten. You're not being realistic; you're being absurd -- literally using a bunch of April Fools Day jokes as evidence that all of academia is broken. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27909164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27909164 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911634