on academia

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An a priori? Walking, talking a priori. Everyone has an angle to pursue. Some revealed pseudo-secret passes as cold hard cash. "We'll have to do lunch" means "let's trade scandals."

"Heard anything?" All the while missing their own stench. Impression mismanagement begins at home. 

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Brilliance. What is its measure? In a crowd of PhDs, intelligence is cheap. Where is the line between wheat & chaff? "Synthetic judgment" naturally. It's  the creativity, stupid. Magicians still work their magic. Flat out brilliance. Let's take ___, her book qualifies. How can one tell? Because its author's existence so perturbs the smaller big minds. "Her first book came out too early." A herd of Salieris passing judgment. Don't look beyond the end of your nose and please do not wake the neighbors. Above all else: fit in.