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the bubble already exists, or.....tower, it's called academia.What is quite clear from many personal experiences in online semi professional forums, is that wha
by metalman 1y ago
the bubble already exists, or.....tower, it's called academia.What is quite clear from many personal experiences in online semi professional forums, is that what many top notch acedemics crave is to "profess" to an interested random group in the hopes of finding successors and students, or colaborators that are missing from there actual real world life. This is proving to be clumsy and time consuming, with no good way to moderate, and distinguish between those who's enthusiasims are positive and the always almost's.
This whole phenominon is ancient, and we have accounts of identical situations from the agora of
athens and many other citys open .....forums
the open forumis messy, but it inevitably yields new thoughts and actions bieng adopted, vs a closed school, that yield orthodox reactionary beurocratic stagnancy.