It's a useful if (as the author admits) hyperbolic metaphor. And really, no single metaphor (or essay) needs to (or can) address all relevant issues. But, I t

It's a useful if (as the author admits) hyperbolic metaphor. And really, no single metaphor (or essay) needs to (or can) address all relevant issues. But, I think the next thing that comes to mind after reading it (if, like I, you fundamentally agree) is, "why is it like that?" Academia is, at the graduate level, one of the most fundamentally hierarchical, arbitrary, and unfair work environments. It is the very opposite of all of the progressive, power-to-the-people ideology that most of the people in it would profess to believe in. The reason that faculty are godzillas, is that the system is designed that way. I can believe that using this metaphor is a great way for someone (especially newly in the role) to realize their perceived power, and how to minimize the destructive consequences of that. But, really, the problem is that the way in which academia is structured is far more unjust and hierarchical than even the corporate world.