Posted by
Marcus G. Daniels on
Jan 24, 2014; 11:57pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Live-Q-A-with-Edward-Snowden-Thursday-23rd-January-8pm-GMT-3pm-EST-tp7584887p7584898.html
Glen writes:
"But then some of them did show that extra spark. I remember one girl
who almost never talked at all. But when she did, to whomever it was,
she seemed to always talk directly about the core of the topic ...
without clouding it with other, arbitrary, garbage she might happen to
know. I never could come up with a satisfying classifier for the two
types."
My hypothesis is that, as they mature, the gregarious ones like to
accumulate and use arbitrary garbage
and use it to advance socially and professionally. In the latter case,
some do so in higher education, or
administration of higher education. This, in turn, contributes their host
universities acting as a gravity
wells, indoctrinating rather than discovering and falsifying.
And it is amplified at lesser universities where assistant profs can't find
funding for research and end-
up teaching, forever, even though they'd rather not. As they become more
and more stuck, teaching to
their customers that just want a stamp of employability, authoritarian
incentives and instincts are the
ones that make these young professional's lives `better' day-to-day, and
that also further reinforces the
gravity well. At such an organization, would you expect skeptics to be
welcome? No, they just make
people mad, or sad. So conform.
Marcus
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