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There was a time when academia was society’s refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical: it would seem society now has no place for them at all.

David Graeber

"The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy"