As regards academia I think this is why the last redoubt of conservativism and scepticism in universities is often found in engineering since they are judged more on whether the things they produce actually work.
This responsibility-dodging is something I've been thinking about myself, recently. It pervades the entire system. Managerialists seek to remove agency from the managed, while also seeking to occult their own agency via obscurity and secrecy. All agency is deposited in The System, but mechanical procedure can have no genuine agency. The result is not just a disappearance of free will but a disappearance of will per se: the ability to actually do things evaporates.
Riffing on your comparison of China to culturally similar neighbors, one wonders if the economic successes ascribed to managerialism were achieved in spite of them rather than through them. We think of it as a necessary evil, but I am not so sure it is necessary at all.
As regards academia I think this is why the last redoubt of conservativism and scepticism in universities is often found in engineering since they are judged more on whether the things they produce actually work.
This responsibility-dodging is something I've been thinking about myself, recently. It pervades the entire system. Managerialists seek to remove agency from the managed, while also seeking to occult their own agency via obscurity and secrecy. All agency is deposited in The System, but mechanical procedure can have no genuine agency. The result is not just a disappearance of free will but a disappearance of will per se: the ability to actually do things evaporates.
Riffing on your comparison of China to culturally similar neighbors, one wonders if the economic successes ascribed to managerialism were achieved in spite of them rather than through them. We think of it as a necessary evil, but I am not so sure it is necessary at all.
The comparison with Japan strongly suggests not necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/live/OZQifZ3E_x8?si=8mZvBlHuo3a4E-DU
The best American Educator was Booker T. Washington; get a trade, a profession, a skill, then university.
FYI, first link, "bullshit", is broken.
Fixed, thanks for letting know.
No problem!
I can ‘t get this article to play audio--is it a bug of the new format, or a feature?
It is not intentional on my part.