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Re: Academia and Hip-Hip

By all means the folks below should have the opportunity to indulge in anti-academic rants.

But it's dumb to generalize about "academia," and it's dumber to conflate studying something with approving it. You can study anything that goes on in the world -- disease, violence, children's literature, flea markets, panhandling, salamanders, science fiction, financial crises. The question is whether you produce good or bad work about what you study.

There's always going to be a gap between being a fan of a kind of music or part of a youth scene, and studying it, and you inevitably look silly if you try to play both roles at once.


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