Institutional Decay

I spent decades preparing for real inquiry — thinking that universities existed to confront the unknown. Instead, I walked into a machine that protects itself before it protects knowledge. It acts like a guardian of truth while defending hierarchy. It talks about discovery while policing deviation. The gap between its claims and its actions doesn’t land on the institution — it lands on everyone forced to live in a world built on the errors it refuses to correct.

Students lose time and money. Researchers lose voice and courage. The public loses trust. Culture loses memory. The future loses options. What should be a generator of insight becomes a filter that discards anything that threatens (its own) comfort. Clever people enable the decay, confusing institutional survival with societal progress. A place meant to widen the horizon instead shrinks it — feeding on curiosity, starving understanding, and leaving civilisation to pay the bill.