now, i have a reputation for being a little overly hard on academia. it's true -- i've been known to rant for hours about the overspecialization of knowledge in the ivory tower, and the too-oft vacuous push towards research, when maybe teaching would be a better use of one's time. indeed, just last night, some thread of this came up in a discussion that j and i were having, and i found myself trying to clarify the fact that i am by no means anti-academic. rather, i think that there is sometimes a tendency in academia to make hay from germs of ideas that might have been better left as ... well, germs.
and then, my friend austin, who is much renowned for sending tidbits of information he gets from god knows where, sent this.
and i rest my case.
of course, as a postscript, it occurs to me that maybe they *are* kidding me. in which case, i stand down. irony can sometimes get lost on the net.
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