(6-7) Bro I think you're too emotionally obsessed by these "academic shitposting" talking-heads.. (unless you're replying to these lowviz threads purely in self-therapy.. which, I approve!) hidden "fraternal" envy?

Reform in governance has to start with learning specific processes from Swiss, Irish (the country), Latin American and even Chinese/Korean institutions (eg Cuba medical training from that nice thread) -- and not from divining ideological positions originating from European countries -- that unfortunately get the bulk of the "humanist" attention

It'd be like reading a Design magazine and getting upset with the editors' fixation on Balenciaga

(5) though is an interesting observation, please do those statistics. I think what STEM academic types that don't thrive on Bs and X (like you and OP) have, broadly, that is undervalued by technocracies- a hidden talent for cognitive plasticity that translates better to agency

(Edit: what silver calls "decoupling")

It is my own frustration with "Blueskyism" [1] that has gotten me to plan out the work that would get those statistics, that is, build something that can look at emotionally negative people's profiles so I don't have to. Haven't done it because... well, I'm always taking photos or developing photos or posting photos or posting here.

But yeah, I one of those strange liminal figures that won't ever put his head up to be counted around the University because it would be trouble. If I meet a professor in the hallway and start asking questions pretty soon it is... "You're not a civilian are you?" Grad students frustrate me because the kid who works on density functional calculations for metal organic frameworks can't answer "how do you make a MOF?" which got me to go home and look up the answer which is really simple, "mix the ingredients and bake in the oven"

In those few areas where I really am an expert in something it is frustrating as hell to deal with communities that don't recognize it, it's one reason why I never played the game for stack overflow -- for a lot of subjects my opinion is mid, but in cases where I've fought hard to get the right answer I'm not going to play a game I don't want to play on a site to get to post it.

A lot of people at my Uni are really stuck up: my current nexus of frustration is in sports photography where nobody with any actual authority in sports or communications at my Uni wants to acknowledge my work because my camera is my only press pass. I know I am going to get some recognition of some kind some day because I keep working at it and I wind up meeting some of the players and assistant coaches and the people from the alumni associations who put on the tailgates and as much as I appreciate it when sports comm does things I know are hard I know I can be there sometimes where they aren't getting results in my own way.

[1] if the “Blueskyist” really wants things to get better politically (maybe they don’t) they are the ones who need to understand the case against it