[MD] The Academy is Evil! Here's what I'd do instead...

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Mark to DMB]
Please don't insult us with your naivete.  It makes this forum look ridiculous.

[Arlo]
As I said, I could easily fill many posts with examples of how disciplines have
evolved over time within the Academy. I am hard-pressed to find a single one
that has remained unchanged by new ideas for the last one-hundred years. Can
you?

And to the contrary, I think slogans and talk-radio propaganda about the evil
Academy (a police state!) make the forum look more ridiculous. But I get that
you all think the Academy is "evil", you don't have to repeat that.

But other than "be more flexible", you really haven't offered anything
constructive. You berated the institutions, you've berated professors... so,
Mark, offer something better.

Again, how would YOU change things? Or even, what would you propose we had
INSTEAD?