“Entire books could be written about the degeneration of humanities education in the modern university, but for our purposes, we will simply invoke one highly illustrative story. A physicist by the name of Alan Sokal had long suspected that most humanities’ scholarship was nonsense, so he chose to test this theory himself by submitting a paper of incomprehensible gibberish for publication at a leading journal of critical studies. 60 The paper was accepted for publication. These are the same journals in which publication is necessary for academics to keep their jobs and advance in their career. By publishing deliberately fashionable gibberish, Sokal showed us the true nature of fiat academia: nonsense devoid of meaning, churned out by the bucketload to tick bureaucrats’ boxes.”

— The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization by @npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak