Once you make the distinction between money for independence and money for status, the rest becomes easy.
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Namedropping one’s most powerful friend makes the namedropper look insecure…
Namedropping one’s most powerful friend makes the namedropper look insecure. It is much more effective to namedrop one’s most powerful enemy
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Success is when not a single one of the people you respect the most thinks of you as a fraud…
Success is when not a single one of the people you respect the most thinks of you as a fraud –including yourself.
(More lessons from the UCL episode aside from mob terror.)
One reason to avoid titles, prizes, etc. things not organic: I surmise that it makes people more, not less reputationally fragile and vastly more conscious of it. From my own experience with fights, winners of the Nobel (or rather pseudoNobel) in economics are easy to terrorize, much easier than ordinary academics. I had direct fights with 4 of them and observed/discussed with another 3: total insecurity, loss aversion.
This is not good for the person, and not good for research as people are scared to take risky positions.
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Let us generalize beyond UCL…
Let us generalize beyond UCL: Arbitrary destruction of reputations turns people into slaves.
A society of administrators and insecure, reputation-vulnerable laborers creates a dystopian society managed by the lowest common denominator, in which all the gains in legal sophistication vanish, turning people into pure slaves, no longer independent, fearful of opening their mouths, terrorized byf the slightest smear and *no due process* in the undoing of reputations.
For a perfect illustration of the process, this is the investigation by Louise Mensch who appears to be one of the very few people in the UK to have both balls and a sense of justice.http://unfashionista.com/…/the-royal-societys-diversity-co…/
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I am boycotting UCL…
REPOSTED with redaction/Post on spineless cowards
Boycotting UCL, twice and invite anyone who has respect for freedom of expression, disdain for hypocrisy, and feels that intellectual life should not fall prey to Soviet-style arbitrary bureaucrats, to do so.
Please note that UCL, aside from having a campus in Qatar, is penalizing a defenseless old white male while letting hate preachers operate with impunity. And without even any attempt at due process, fact checking, blinded by twiter mobs and loud policing operators. Despicable hypocrites.
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UPDATE: Looks like academics in UK are afraid of speaking too loud as they are afraid of administrators and the thought police giving them a label. I was told that there is no tenure in UK and “performance reviews” can be arbitrary. Spineless slaves; they don’t deserve to do research.
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(Had to delete old post because of problem with cropping phone numbers and we inadvertently lost comments..)
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