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> Kissinger Misattributed to him. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Misattributed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Misattributed It p
by eesmith 2y ago
> Kissinger
Misattributed to him. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Misattributed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Misattributed
It points out https://archive.org/details/americanuniversi0000unse_w2i7/page/30/mode/2up?q=stakes https://archive.org/details/americanuniversi0000unse_w2i7/pa... from 1970: "We can no longer use our little joke that campus politics are so nasty because the stakes are so small. They are now so nasty because the stakes are so large."
- cjbgkagh 2y agoThanks, I quickly googled where it came from and looked no further. Some of academia is important, and I did try to do important things while I was there. That was the main thing I was fighting over, the permission to do important things. Often it would take me far longer to get the permission than to do the thing. I did find that the bulk of the people preferred to squabble and the bulk of the research doesn’t work, and the bulk of the research that does work buried. And since so much work is buried a lot of research is simply rediscovering what already should have been known. I think the selection criteria bias on what we know from the fruits of research gives a false sense of what it is like to be a researcher.