[hallway_monitor]

As an outside observer, it does seem that the whole process is tedious, capricious, and corrupt. No wonder academia is crumbling - it deserves to, and it needs to be replaced with a new, better system.

[root_axis]

> the whole process is tedious, capricious, and corrupt

Is there any human institution under the sun that doesn't labor under a litany of such criticisms?

[riffraff]

To paraphrase the science/funerals quip, one might say "Society advances one failed institution at a time".