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"we are all in agreement that universities, at this point, are where intellectual passion goes to die, buried under mountains of pointless grant applications imposed on us humanists by the insane and suicidal cargo-cult of STEM worship, which in the end is just a poorly disguised worship of money and power"

The diagnosis is perfect, but the article is not about that.
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The Hinternet · Here Come the AllodidactsBy William Deresiewicz

"We hear a pop song many times on the radio (or wherever), then buy it and listen to it repeatedly. Soon, we know the lyrics by heart. We force our parents to listen to it. The whole song is present to us as a single concept, more than as a narrative arc. In this way, a three-minute pop song is more like a three-second slogan than like a thirty-minute show or a short story.”

#Music #PopSongs #PaulSimon #America #CloseReading

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3 Quarks Daily · Let Us Be Lovers - 3 Quarks Dailyby Jerry Cayford