[psi75]

> What I found incredible is the lack of push-back from academics against the encroaching takeover by the biznoids.

Paradox of tolerance. Academics were too peacefully inclined to realize what is happening to them and their jobs until it's too late.

As the left re-emerges, I hope it will evolve into something with some fight in it. De-corporatization is going to take decades and it's not all going to be pretty.