Posted by alexandra_k on May 19, 2018, at 19:44:45
In reply to Re: don't know what's wrong » sigismund, posted by alexandra_k on May 19, 2018, at 19:17:55
When I say 'they want me to do philosophy' I mean they want me to teach undergraduates philosophy.
They want people to take philosophy *instead of* statistics or computer science or maths or physics or engineering or law.
They want more and more people to be thrown back from those programs to be happy to settle for philsophy. Because that's their view of it. The hierarchy of the university, you see:
Medicine
Dentistry Engineering (Engineering is so varied it's hard to know where to put it, honestly)
ChemistryLaw
Arts and social sciences and education
It's a bit unclear... But that's roughly how the hierarchy goes.
There was something about how this university had the lowest proportion of professors to students of any university that had world ranking status... So a directive to employ more professors... Translates into promoting more of what we've currently got. Pay bump. Title. Because it doesn't look good when it's student volunteers grave robbing cemetaries. It looks better when it's a professor directed cultural bioanthropoligical investigation into early settlers in NZ (because anything dead for more than 50 years isn't 'medicine only' in these parts since we don't have to worry about non-medicine people researching implanted materials and so on... and generally our laws...
Anyway... That puts me as head of the varmin. That's the idea. The hierarchy thing. The kids who got thrown back from the skilled jobs. Babysitting them. So they want to kill themselves a little less. Or, actually, I don't think we care about whether they say they want to kill themselves or not (if they say they want to it keeps them occupied doing that all day -- right)? Just so long as they don't actually... Mostly... Until we decide it's time for them to go...
I don't want to work towards the development of philosophy in NZ. Not any more than I want to work towards the development of psychiatry in NZ. those things... philosophy... psychiatry... can't develop until we've got a whole f*ck*ng bunch of other things right.
People are setting up the costs of orthopedics to inevitably skyrocket. and it will go in for materials science experimentation. implant things into the body that can't be removed. their identification tags. implant slow release devices. the development of gamma babies...
it doesn't have to be / go that way. really, it doesn't.
when will we learn to look after the things we've got?
the rest of the world is waiting...
you just have to believe that when it comes to civilisation... it can't be anything other than just standing / stepping up.
sigh.
i have to write philosophy this year since my previous qualifications in philosophy are past their use-by date. i think insofar as there are any people left in the world who have integrity enough to let someone be free withotu doing mercenary work first i will find it, there. trouble is from english person who thinks that it should take 1 1/2 years to do 1200 hours of work.
just get it done...
all the work i've done already... that wasn't acknowledged because i didn't... force people to acknowledge it for what it was. doing my 6 month review and my supervisor says 'that can't be your 6 month review it's not good enough'... and actually that was b*llsh*t. it really genuinely was b*llsh*t. i see the students he picked out as the best of his students and other people didn't see that in them (they didn't end up with jobs in the field). and the students of his who developed closer relationships with other people and went on to thrive in teh field... and then the australians who bail to medicine...
anyway... i'd want to shoot my face off doing that all day... and then all these kids who (for them) it would be a dream come true. why don't they spend their time genuinely nurturing those ones who have capacity?
oh yeah... because this whole hierarchy thing is only fun when you get to bully and torment the people below you. what is it they want to do? then the opposite must be enforced!
i... am genuinely not like them.
huh.
so the trouble is i must have nothing. the an example, to them, of why they must tow the line to their mercenary superiors and take what joy they can get from tormenting their vermin students.
that appears to be how they like to live.
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