"I’ve been told she’s having fun with words but to me her fun is exclusive, her verbosity incomprehensible. Is this the purpose of academia?"
Yes.
In a word, yes, that is the purpose of academia, to justify and maintain the bourgeois elite, and make sure the power and wealth remains always where it is, in the hands of the 1 per cent. That is why they are always banging on about race, sex and LGBTQ, and never mention class. Because they want us divided according to the most shallow and meaningless identities, such as our skin colour, our sex, who we do or don't sleep with, rather than have us realise that it's always been about the "haves", and the "have nots".
And the academics have always been amongst the "haves"
"I’ve been told she’s having fun with words but to me her fun is exclusive, her verbosity incomprehensible. Is this the purpose of academia?"
Yes.
In a word, yes, that is the purpose of academia, to justify and maintain the bourgeois elite, and make sure the power and wealth remains always where it is, in the hands of the 1 per cent. That is why they are always banging on about race, sex and LGBTQ, and never mention class. Because they want us divided according to the most shallow and meaningless identities, such as our skin colour, our sex, who we do or don't sleep with, rather than have us realise that it's always been about the "haves", and the "have nots".
And the academics have always been amongst the "haves"
A point well made by Percival Everett in his book 'Erasure', though unsurprisingly 'erased' in Amazon Prime's film adaption: 'American Fiction'.
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