Our universities are not producing experts or competency, but inasmuch as they are—and where they are—it exists only as an outlier within the great goo of median self-replication to which hierarchical bureaucracy is naturally attracted. The institutional frame does not optimise for insight but for the recursive preservation of itself, absorbing deviation back into the […]
Universities long ago crossed the threshold into becoming vocational colleges. The old pretense of cultivating intellect has collapsed into bureaucratic ritual. Degrees, even doctorates, are now less a marker of insight than of endurance — square pegs forced into square holes, ticking rubrics until compliance is complete. What is rewarded is not originality but conformity, […]
Deterministic assumptions have a tendency to reproduce the kinds of dissonance for which those assumptions are best suited to further negotiate; bureaucracies thrive in precisely this way. This is a question as of how (and perhaps why) systems tend to abstract models of their components that ever so slightly misrepresent those parts in ways that, […]
On the Streisand Effect and great legal backfires of history: litigation makes for great PR.
Daedelus Kite 