Academia is a pyramid scheme. You graduate 100 history majors and tell them to seek a position in academia every semester. No knowledge or teaching how to do something else with the degree at all. Then, you only have 6 positions in the history department entirely. Every school follows the same path.

That's history, the very foundation of philosophy and knowledge. Everything else is written about it. Then you have something like Women Studies, who graduated 400 students a semester, and have 20 positions entirely. They're all told people will hire them, and they need to move the world forward. Slave labor? Graduate teachers, post docs, and undergrads are all doing the work the professor needs to stay in academia. All those papers published with barely any actual research or looks. The higher up just says if something works or not. Those papers have to pay to be published by the way. To keep your job you need to publish 5 papers a year.

The worst is networking. You go to Harvard to network, and the education is nice as well. The school will promote a 90% hired rate, but have no way for students to show off or talk to people to find a future. The jobs are all lower level stuff, which is likely for a company built just like the academic one. It's bureaucratic bullcrap all over, and it all moves at a glacial rate, and destroys lives left and right. All the while theybdeclare how important they are and we need to praise the iceberg.

One you see it in motion, you realize how and why empires implode so often. They create stuff like this to look good and then it envelopes them.

Another unhinged lefty going on a mask off rant

From California to New York, imposing cathedrals of higher learning are bleeding from a violent collision with an unbending obstacle. The founder of Truth Social is demanding nothing but absolute subservience from the US temples of truth-seeking.

Nothing dogmatic here…

The first casualties of this titanic shock can be estimated by the tens of thousands. In the vulnerable lower decks of the ship, overburdened and highly indebted students, early career researchers and Visa holding scholars – whose sweat and undervalued labor power the steamship of US academia – are drowning in the cold invisibility of academic darkness. Middle Eastern studies programs, DEI initiatives, affirmative action policies and other long neglected passengers are helplessly descending to the bottom of the ocean. The magnitude of the president’s tariffs on US universities is so large and so unprecedented that it is hard to underestimate their devastating impact.

Now every problem academia caused itself is trumps fault. Because Trump mass indebted students, forced worthless degrees and DEI…

In the upper chambers of the damaged ship, post-docs, untenured professors, mid-rank crew members and other second-class passengers are scrambling to find some sort of safety amidst the chaos. Meanwhile, Ivy-League presidents, lavishly paid university executives and other distinguished first-class guests are gradually making sense of the tragedy while savoring their hors d’oeuvres. Some have rushed to flood the headlines of liberal media with a tsunami of alarming interviews and op-eds (like this one). As they take notice of the gravity of the impact, university leaders are trying to save their endowments by appealing to deep-pocketed donors and influential networks of lawyers, lawmakers and corporate barons. Other first-classers, for complete lack of shame, character or reason, are trying to cut deals with the iceberg.

The blatant ego this loser has is truly impressive, he thinks making a titanic reference is somehow deep prose.

In a recent survey published by Nature, the world’s most popular scientific journal, an astonishing three out of four scientists working in US universities declared that they were considering to leave the country for better opportunities elsewhere.

Do it, I dare you

As they contemplate the majestic ship, now severely bruised and adrift, scientists, students and higher education professionals in the United States – many of them foreigners – are also thinking to themselves: what are we trying to save, anyways? What is this ship all about, after all? What makes US universities so special and worth fighting for? The answer is academic freedom.

Ah yes, the academic freedom to selectively teach easily disproven lies that get professors bent out of shape and foaming rabid when called out.

For college students, academic freedom means, in practice, the freedom to learn, free of debt – a liberty that most American learners have long been deprived of. For young adults building the foundations of their professional and civic lives, academic freedom also means the liberty to express themselves fully, and the possibility to share educational spaces with classmates from diverse faiths, genders, ideologies, nationalities and purchasing powers. But even conservative observers such as David Brooks acknowledge that US universities – particularly the richest ones – have failed to address the pervasive impacts of inequality, social media and political radicalism on the education of young citizens.

“We need more diversity and socialism” really groundbreaking stuff here, the same thing academics gleefully spewed for decades while padding their bank accounts with their students parents money.

For professors of mathematics, literature or non-western arts and sciences, academic freedom means the freedom to teach unimpeded by censorship and systematic defunding. That freedom has also been persistently under threat long before the recent iceberg collision. As illustrated by Joshua Travis Brown in his newly launched book titled Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went From Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed, US colleges have too often abandoned their emancipating missions in exchange for profit margins.

Then teach for free, funny how these losers always have a solution and it’s your labor for less.

Of course, academic freedom also means the autonomy of universities to self-govern, free from the destructive interference of authoritarian governments. As Iveta Silova eloquently observed in a recent op-ed, the past experiences of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are only a couple of many stark reminders that when free universities bargain their autonomy, everyone loses.

The complete lack of self awareness begs malice over stupidity. You would have to be beyond blind to see that the left created a gestapo academia who then got turned into a profit mill by the same leftist “socialists”.

and everything a value was already lost, therefore nothing of value is being lost now.

Considering that I work with multiple Ivy League scientists, MDs, and MBAs who can’t do basic fucking math, I’d say the ship sailed on this a long fucking time ago

Of course, academic freedom also means the autonomy of universities to self-govern, free from the destructive interference of authoritarian governments.

I wish at least one of these commie faggots would admit that any university is welcome to ignore Trump by simply declining federal handouts.

I'm surprised that Titanic made out of shit took that long to sink.

My favourite thing to do is just say "good" when people say things like this to me in the real world.

I wish the situation was as dire as this whiny faggot makes it out to be.