I speak of justice only conceptually, entirely recognizing that, in practice, humans are incapable of materializing a reasonable semblance thereof. Every bloody job I've ever worked substantiated that view for me. And also that your statement about power is also inescapable.
Exemplary: Of the FT gigs I held, the academic was the freest in most ways. But when faculty-admin meetings transpired and academic issues were discussed, you could have the vast majority of the faculty (the guts of a university together w/ the students) leaning one way. But if the admin -- dean or dean under the pressure of Pres and Board of trustees wanted something else, screw faculty and students screw doing justice to the mission of higher ed that got the institution its accreditation. Justice my tuchis (to use the Yiddish in honor of Miliekowsky).
I know you're right in practice because Homo is hopeless, but my dad was an attorney and did a bunch of pro bono for immigrants so he injected me with the conceptual piece.
I speak of justice only conceptually, entirely recognizing that, in practice, humans are incapable of materializing a reasonable semblance thereof. Every bloody job I've ever worked substantiated that view for me. And also that your statement about power is also inescapable.
Exemplary: Of the FT gigs I held, the academic was the freest in most ways. But when faculty-admin meetings transpired and academic issues were discussed, you could have the vast majority of the faculty (the guts of a university together w/ the students) leaning one way. But if the admin -- dean or dean under the pressure of Pres and Board of trustees wanted something else, screw faculty and students screw doing justice to the mission of higher ed that got the institution its accreditation. Justice my tuchis (to use the Yiddish in honor of Miliekowsky).
I know you're right in practice because Homo is hopeless, but my dad was an attorney and did a bunch of pro bono for immigrants so he injected me with the conceptual piece.
Note that last phrase "what you do with it".