Why both the two majority Australian political parties get it wrong, and why Australia is following the United States into ‘Higher Education’ idiocy

July 23, 2024
“Higher education has a culture of unhappiness: Professors in low-demand fields — feeling like we have no options — often practice resignation rather than pursue opportunities that might suit us better. Academe systematically convinces extraordinarily talented people of their own relative worthlessness: “You’ll never meet our expectations, and no one else wants you.” It’s gaslighting from […]

“Higher education has a culture of unhappiness: Professors in low-demand fields — feeling like we have no options — often practice resignation rather than pursue opportunities that might suit us better. Academe systematically convinces extraordinarily talented people of their own relative worthlessness: “You’ll never meet our expectations, and no one else wants you.” It’s gaslighting from start to finish.

I am not saying that I would never return to higher education in some leadership capacity. There are many things I miss: the students, colleagues, scholarship, fund raising, program-building, and even the atmosphere of it all. I still “love” academe, and I miss being a “professor.” But I am also happier — even with so much uncertainty — having left that role behind in search of something that better suits who I am now, rather than remaining trapped by the choices of my younger self.”

 

 

 

An interview comment from William Pannapacker, in William Pannapacker and Jennifer Polk, “How to Pilot a Postacademic Career. Two Ph.D.s who left academe and now run their own businesses offer advice on professional transitions,” The Chronicle of Higher Education Online, July 19, 2024. My emphasis on the word, gaslighting. My generation would say, propaganda.

 

 

 

Lets instead, list the facts:

 

  1. Australian governments (including state and local) pay more attention to their ignorant (meaning there is not evidence of clear and precise knowledge) paymasters than make decisions based on critical thinking and evidence-based and comprehensive judgement. Such political decision-makers are caught in the blinding and wilful ignorance of habitus.
  2. From (1.) we can can see that there is no true leadership, and the population, including many small business owners, is mostly served propaganda.
  3. If there were far more honest conversations, among political decision-makers, in society, among communities, and in the use of our technologies, such as social media, the sets of partial (real) solutions would be apparent (it is there in the global literature waiting to be read and understood), and there would be true pathway forward (progressivism).
  4. From (3.), we can see that the holistic outcome is an educated society for Australia, rather than the propaganda of “she’ll be right, mate!” or “Don’t you worry about that!” political bullshit.

 

 

 

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By the way the issue is not the spelling, nor grammar, it is that YOU can’t fool all of the people all the time. The reasoned judgement will come upon your heads for your dishonesty.

 

 

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.

From Oxford Reference.

Abraham Lincoln, also attributed to Phineas Barnum
Alexander K. McClure Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories (1904)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.

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