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Corruptible Scholasticism

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Post date Jan 26, 2026
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Institutional scholasticism does not primarily exist to discover truth. It exists to reproduce itself. It operates through status hierarchies, reputational gating, and compliance rituals that slowly but efficiently select against intellectual risk. Advancement depends less on clarity, insight, or courage than on strategic alignment, calibrated language, and ritual citation. Academic publishing, the circulatory system of […]

Tags academic capitalism, academic gatekeeping, academic power structures, academic publishing crisis, algorithmic governance, bureaucratic hierarchy, censorship by incentive, citation politics, communication systems, corporate academia, credentialism, critical theory, cultural power, cultural reproduction, cybernetic critique, education systems critique, elite reproduction, epistemic closure, institutional corruption, institutional decay, institutional failure, intellectual conformity, intellectual freedom, knowledge monopolies, knowledge production, political economy of knowledge, power and knowledge, prestige economy, reputational control, scholarly independence, scholastic hierarchy, status systems, systemic capture, systemic corruption, systems analysis, thought suppression

cybernetics

Duplicity

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Post date Jan 14, 2026
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What is striking is not simply how difficult it is for people with genuine insight, intellectual range, and openness to rise through status hierarchies, but that those hierarchies stabilise themselves by filtering out precisely the signals that would correct them. This is not accidental. Systems that persist must dampen information that threatens coherence, even when […]

Tags abuse of power, accountability mechanisms, administrative injustice, administrative law breach, administrative violence, algorithmic governance failure, audit failure, authority without accountability, automation in government, blame diffusion, bureaucratic cruelty, bureaucratic harm, corruption by process, crisis mismanagement, culture of compliance, delayed accountability, democratic accountability, erosion of public trust, ethical erosion, ethics versus efficiency, executive accountability, executive overreach, failure of oversight, governance, governance breakdown, governance ethics, governance opacity, governance reform, harm minimisation rhetoric, institutional corruption, institutional defensiveness, institutional integrity, institutional lying, institutional self-protection, integrity systems failure, lawful authority misuse, leadership integrity, legal advice ignored, moral hazard in bureaucracy, moral injury, moral responsibility in government, normalisation of wrongdoing, obedience to process, organisational denial, organisational misconduct, policy failure, policy-induced harm, power without responsibility, procedural corruption, procedural obfuscation, public administration critique, public governance failure, public sector ethics, public sector malpractice, regulatory capture, regulatory collapse, reputational risk management, responsibility deferral, responsibility in leadership, robodebt, robodebt royal commission, Robodebt scandal, rule of law failure, rule-following pathology, social security administration, state power and harm, strategic silence, structural incompetence, systemic accountability, systemic failure, systemic harm amplification, technocratic governance, unlawful policy implementation, welfare compliance systems, whistleblower suppression

Philosophy

Predatory Opportunism in University Systems

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Post date Jan 11, 2026
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University systems are not simply 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. […]