@exindy I remember being recommended a book about "how to get an academic job." It was called "The Professor Is In." The message of this book: get out of academia. There are no jobs, and even if you were on the off-chance to get one, it would suck.

As for Joe Biden being a tool, well, maybe so, but it's important to remember that once upon a time Joe Biden had some free will, and what he did with this free will was to appoint some astonishingly bad people. Blinken, Nuland, Sullivan, and the bunch basically share a college-fraternity vision of the world reminiscent of the villains in "National Lampoon's Animal House."

It's also meaningful to consider that, of the various puppets running for President in 2019 and 2020, Joe Biden was the one with the greatest semblance of a personality, and by far the worst of the bunch. (Readers will note that the primary pitch about Biden was that he "has turned to the Left.") Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Bloomberg, Booker, Warren, and Yang are all glorified data entry clerks. (The towering virtue of the pre-sellout Sanders was to point out that the taxpayers weren't getting much of anything for their money under the current arrangement, but pointing that out was strictly forbidden, so no.)

The point I'm trying to make is that there's a yawning void in the Democratic Party's ability to perform the basic functions of the sort of pseudo-democracy the Democrats have themselves created. You'd think that a lot of people would jump into this void. Of those we actually get to see, Jill Stein is the best of the bunch, and Stein is by her own self-admission a response to this void. So, yes, they could find another puppet, but even the quality of the puppets is in steep decline, so there's a problem there too.

#6.1 He serves a purpose. Get rid of him and there are hundreds ready to take his place.

It's a roach infestation in our rotting home, herpes on a global scale. Somewhere in the last few weeks I saw a reference to a new strain of modern man... homo economicus, pschopaths one and all.

Before breaking my promise... I saw an excellent essay from one of our other exploited cannon fodders. You might find it interesting:

I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
Americans are letting education fall apart. Politicians are helping it.

My last raise was a chocolate bar.

My dean left it in my office mailbox one December. It was one of those chocolate bars that looks like a thousand-dollar bill. He thought it was funny. He said it was his way of showing me how much I was worth.
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I'm done. I'm out. I'm giving up my tenure. I earned that tenure through endless nights and weekends in libraries, in front of screens, banging away at deep thoughts on Bakhtin that a few dozen people would read. I earned it grading countless papers and leading countless peer-review workshops. Now, for the first time since my early 20s, there's no more students to shepherd. No more papers to grade. No more pointless department meetings to sit through. No more conferences or professional development workshops that I'm supposed to get reimbursed for, but never do.
...

I'm leaving because my university, like so many others out there, refuses to get with the times. Six months ago, my dean promised to support my bid for a remote teaching position. Nothing would've changed. I've been teaching online for the last four years. Before asking me to quit, my dean scheduled a special phone call to ask if I was okay teaching a heavier course load for a lower salary, in exchange for this special concession. On top of that, I was already designing a slew of new courses they desperately needed. I planned those courses down to the day, and even wrote a free textbook for it along with videos for other teachers to use. I was also unofficially doing administrative work, and that was going to become an official job duty.

https://www.okdoomer.io/im-a-professor-heres-why-im-walking-away-from-my...

The US is just another proxy pretending to have value.

Thank you.