Every crisis is an opportunity, and the collapse of higher education in the West is no exception; not only are there lucrative opportunities in consultancy and advising senior management on how to grind down their staff and destroy their institutions, but this in turn creates a market in supporting those ground-down staff, without too much haranguing them for leaving it so long to get out. Yes, I’m thinking of the Substack post a couple of days ago by Karen Kelsky, aka The Professor Got Out In Good Time, discussing the reason why academics remain addicted to academia. The answer is: external affirmation. “…anyone who succeeds in any capacity in academia becomes addicted, to a greater or lesser degree, to the external validation of academic gatekeepers (search committees, tenure committees, journal editors, conference organizers, etc.) and this addiction makes it virtually impossible to imagine leaving academia and losing your ‘supply’.” Uh huh. I will grant that we [for ‘me’ values of…
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