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by o0o0_ooo 3822 days ago
> What about technology, scientific progress, our guided evolution as a species and so on?

A means to an end, that end being to enhance and prolong my relationships with those I love. Sensory pleasures are fine too, but nothing is remotely as important to me as my favorite walking sacks of meat.

> People who have turned academia into a filthy whore that is constantly being pimped out to the highest bidder.

Can you choose a better, less vulgar metaphor? It makes you look really bad, and there's nothing wrong with being a sex worker.