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Snorlax
Do some reading about the slave wages earned by peripatetic "adjunct instructors" who are beloved by administrators because the administrators can pay them so little. The adjunct instructor subculture is huge and growing ...
If the environment for these jobs was not the university (bastion of intellect, education, and preserver of academic freedom and our accumulated knowledge) there would be talk of company towns and oppressive immoral systems that create and ensure their own low-wage labor forces for generations for the sake of an aging elite who retain their own domineering positions through suppression of competition and guaranteed employment during their work lives and beyond. Visions of smokestacks, blast furnaces, overseers, despair and lost opportunity. But the smokestacks, blast furnaces, and overseers have different names and titles, and everything seems so clean and reasonable, if not genuinely noble. Just a narrow road of perdition towards that longed-for opening that never comes: "I could have been a contender". No you couldn't -- they only let you think you could while they used you for their own benefit. (They're not all like that. But as "education" has spread in the US -- and the EXPLOSION in graduate schools in EVERY discipline is a great example -- there are WAY TOO MANY programs that have absolutely no objective reason to exist and could not do so if their existence depended on objective measures of useful success.)
I must challenge the concept of LESSER-KNOWN left-handed poets of 17th-century Northeast Crete since I don't think that the population of the time was sufficient to make such distinctions. But I could be wrong -- if, for example, a number of the otherwise qualifying poets IDENTIFIED as LEFT-HANDED. Surely there's some grant money for that research.
Last edited by ghmerrill; 01-21-2020 at 03:25 PM.
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