Here is something about academic advice that I would rather write about over here, since I am supposed to write an alternative advice book one day.
What is one advising on? I seek advice on how to remain myself in atmospheres which actively militate against it. How to remember it is actually good to have an intellectual orientation, when what is in fact desired and supported is something else — something more corporate and more churchy, perhaps.
In the linked post, the question: is one advising people on how to become oneself, as in, how to become a person with one’s own interests and values? I would not say people can remake themselves to that degree, as in, become someone else.
Other how-to sites are more straightforward, with advice on how to plan a public lecture, how to perform any number of activities. How to be someone else, and who one is allowed to be if one is an academic, seems to be a major question, however, and it seems to ignite professor wars.
Are those wars really necessary, and if so, why are they? In other words, what are they symptoms of?
#OccupyHE.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 