07/09/2026
We didn't shovel the dirt, nor dirtied our hands to acquire the right of our labor. On the contrary, we need to tidy up, in a palace so sterile that a flesh could grow outside its designated vessel. We had given the presitige, by an autorized and formal institution to gamble on the gamified research. we been told that we should publish, or we would perish. Forced to partake in a ratrace research, making a decade or more spent on the subject a mere content. We were the humanity greatest content creator, we are, or we should be the brightest of them all. We are the one that would shook the hand of an extraterrestrial being if they decided that we were worthy, we shall be the one who open the passage for the betterment of mankind.
The current state of academia are insulting. A populist, immature dictator would go on and brag how much He found science so inconvinience for shareholder, He would said that a tree is a tree, or food is food but never acknowledge what kind of food or what kind of tree. He would join his fellow oligarch into a dancing ceremony of prosperity, where the poor must oblige to be overjoyed by his mere existence. His subject must not revolt, his subject must go back and forth to give proper education to his fellow men, while watching the fruit of his labor being defiled by the ones who held power. No matter how smart you are or how many decade you spent on your passion, on the frontier of the knowledge itself, it all wouldn't matter with the bullet ravaging your hippocampus. You can not tell them, nor their fellow subject what's right and wrong. You wouldn't tell a chimpanzee the rules of brazzilian jujitsu when he began to maul you face or ripp off you manhood from it place. You wouldn't gave your time and energy to tell the massess what's wrong and expect all of them to possess equal emotional maturity and a speck of intelligence. The people are easily swayed by emotional narrative, a good deeds, vitrue, and rightiousness that go against evil
But what is evil?
German Nazi would say it is the jew, American Empire would say the evil lies within the heart of every immigrant and blacks.
The Indonesian Empire would say, it's the clever ones, the one who did research, the one who tried to innovate through shoes, or perhaps rooftile even when their annual budget get cut, even when the bureaucracy was created solely for political interest. When they see the fall of decade long research institution who stood against imperialism and economical crisis must fell in the name of politics and free meal program. When they see a building resemblance their nation flag, when they see it was being built by people's money and in the name of people.
They knew it was not being built for the people.
As soon as they spoke about the mismanagement of their money, they were branded as EVIL
State sponsored propagandist are starting to mock your invention, whereash the younger generation are more keen to worship an influencer that heavily paid or might be voluntairly support the current regime
State sponsored violence are started to be directed upon you.
At first, it just a slight inconvinience of hate speech, then it transform into a warning messages of unknown login attempt. Finally, they came to your home with a piece of paper as a sign that their initmidation and violence are justified by the state
They say, it was for the better, it was to keep order, and most importantly we as a subject should not insult the greatness of The State.
And they say, you will serve a punishment
For being too caring and kind, punished by the guilty of being naive.
Lambang Babar Purnomo. was a scientist, who died by the sin of too caring. Too nice of him to think that an archeological finding was not meant to be enjoyed by The Rich, but rather be seen as the national treasure, something so invaluable for the generations to come. Yet, he was murdered, his body was found mutilated in the dicth; A fair warning for any too caring scientist for times to come. To remember this tragedy, the perpetrator would fund the monument of his name, built on the university he used to do research, making a narrtion of a noble hero died as a martyr of justice, where the brother of current head of state are purchasing it with a fraction of his wealth.
So profoundly profane
I spent hours on Sciencedirect.