there's a lot to this even in many FT/TT jobs (now vanishing) your real intellectual community are people you see once a year at a conference; perhaps your employer pays for you to attend and perhaps not your job itself is a constant effort to prove to your "institution" that your job should exist

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Marshawn Lynch said, "Start taking care y'all mentals, y'all bodies and y'all chicken. So when y'all, you know, ready to walk away, you walk away and you be able to do what you want to do." He was talking about professional athletes but this resonated with me.

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55% of Britons hate "statey funes"....you wouldn't last a minute in the asylum where they raised me (Australia)

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“Juvenilia is the intolerable record of how badly life fucks us up.” ICYMI I wrote about Sylvia Plath, archives, violence, fantasy, homeopathy, tomato soup cake, and the Epstein files for the Boston Review.

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One of them offered a series of profound and influential philosophical insights, and the other was Foucault, etc etc

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