The Conflict Between the Abstract and the Concrete in Academic Life

In the abstract it is really easy to hate the other this imaginary conception that you build up whereas in the concrete when once you're engaging with people you know it is much harder and obviously the opposite is also true but largely this is how it plays out. A common criticism about academy which i agree with in large part is that more and more what you see in academy is this sort of circle joke where you have scholars talking to other scholars just talking to each other publishing in journals that only other people like themselves will read and kind of losing touch with the real world. So whenever you do something unconventional like you did with those poor folks at gagi college there is going to be that sort of

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