On: The Duty of a Scholar

[appreciatorBus]

There are whole disciplines whose telos is now activism rather than knowledge production.

https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wpfsx/wp-content/uploads/sites...

[halJordan → appreciatorBus]

You linked a pdf but I'm not going to scroll 30 pages on a phone to figure out your cryptic statement

[scoobertjtwiffl → appreciatorBus]

There are whole companies whose only goal is to make money for shareholders! Most people on HN work for them!

[expedition32 → scoobertjtwiffl]

And those companies make money from government sponsored R&D. and educational pipelines.

[appreciatorBus → scoobertjtwiffl]

Yes.

People working hard on problems that other people are willing to freely compensate them for is a good thing.

Activism disguised as research is a bad thing.