Culture, Communication, Complexity.

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Corruptible Scholasticism

Post author By G
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

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. […]

communication

Maintenance Mode

Modern systems do not fail for lack of intelligence; they fail because intelligence cannot be sustained inside them. What disrupts institutional self-reproduction is neutralised, not because it is wrong, but because it shortens the cycle. That is the sustainability problem. A civilisation that cannot maintain its own capacity for understanding cannot respond coherently to anything […]