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It always fascinates me when those who are self-styled representatives of the public good fail to see how their empathic desires inevitably become infantilization and then outright jealousy.

Academics didn't just wake up and exploit musical genres as the vector of teaching dialectics. That was an act of desperation after a grand collapse of academic influence in the late 1970s.

Once the public learned that the academic class would 1. Rush to their defense, 2. Could weave up tales of oppression with little proof and 3. Could convert those tales into public spending programs, the public gamed the academics. The more exotic the abuse, the more hush money poured in. Once the oil shocks happened and the USD became fiat, the academic class had hit diminishing returns: now we could export inflation, now ANYONE can rabble rouse for profit, not just the learned.

The public became smarter than the academics and they haven't been forgiven since.