If we ever actually get to that point we would actually be screwed. You only rebuild to that extent after everything is razed to the ground... and there would likely be a lot more things "peacefully" razed in the process.
Just be careful what you wish for on that front. I 100% agree that academia is one of the leading sources of cultural and societal rot, but I do also think that most leftist institutions would crumble if any sort of oversight or enforcement came in.
Think about it: specifically over the last 20 years how much has tuition gone up? How much of that has been reinvested into actual education (better facilities, top-notch faculty, and research budgets)? It is nearly all tied up in administration and bullshit.
Shine a light on it and the roaches will scatter. It will be like Twitter - they will all bitch and moan about how fascism or nazism has arrived and how the institution is dead and then suddenly academia will function better when 50-75% of the admin is gone.
It isn't perfect or finished in that scenario, but you probably wouldn't be as pessimistic.
It is too entrenched.
We will need to revert to subsistence levels, with a local schoolhouse that is community run, and then build up from there.
Nah.
If we ever actually get to that point we would actually be screwed. You only rebuild to that extent after everything is razed to the ground... and there would likely be a lot more things "peacefully" razed in the process.
Just be careful what you wish for on that front. I 100% agree that academia is one of the leading sources of cultural and societal rot, but I do also think that most leftist institutions would crumble if any sort of oversight or enforcement came in.
Think about it: specifically over the last 20 years how much has tuition gone up? How much of that has been reinvested into actual education (better facilities, top-notch faculty, and research budgets)? It is nearly all tied up in administration and bullshit.
Shine a light on it and the roaches will scatter. It will be like Twitter - they will all bitch and moan about how fascism or nazism has arrived and how the institution is dead and then suddenly academia will function better when 50-75% of the admin is gone.
It isn't perfect or finished in that scenario, but you probably wouldn't be as pessimistic.