This all started when I was discussing how protective mechanisms can lead to us distorting our perceptions of what is going on in this society and how this can occur not only in a person — say who is compulsively hoarding — but those around them, who gradually accede to living down the rabbit hole
This is from todays Otago Daily Times. The pressure on academics to recruit and fund grant funding to keep graduate students is continually increasing. Graduate students (a) increase the research output of the department (b) increase the number of researchers in the field… but there is a point where this is not sustainable. And we
OK, I’m starting from where we were yesterday. We have a tendency to go down the rabbit hole of our own self righteousness. And this leads to a diversion. We are in a time of trial: it may not have hit (yet) but as we are in peak secularism and peak academie the people who
