Always enjoy these New Discourses articles so sharing it here in case you've never encountered them before. A bit wordy but they're trying to pin down and explain the pathologies that are causing our current predicament in academia so the type of language is required. I find it's useful to remind ourselves from time to time that our ideological enemies are living through 'the looking glass', that is to say they've been maneuvered into a position that causes them to misinterpret reality and they behave the way they do because they are acting on false evidence. Extract - "It must be observed that people who accept pseudo-realities as though they are “real” are no longer normal people. They perceive pseudo-reality in place of reality, and the more thoroughly they take on this delusional position, the more functional psychopathy they necessarily exhibit and thus the less normal they become."