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Predatory Opportunism in the University System

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Post date Jan 11, 2026
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The university system is not organised around knowledge, discovery, or intellectual community. Those are decorative claims. The real game is status. Universities function as credential factories and hierarchy-maintenance machines, where prestige, funding position, and reputational insulation matter far more than whether anything true, useful, or unsettling is learned. This is predatory opportunism in institutional form. […]

Psychology

Intelligence, Lost

There is a specific psychological trap that closes once people believe intelligence has been defined. Not improved, not approximated, not extended—but captured. Once intelligence is perceived as a solved object, externalised and perfected elsewhere (in systems, institutions, or machines), the individual cognitive posture changes in a very particular way: curiosity collapses into compliance. This is […]

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