Academic jargon is frustrating. Why describe the obvious in obscure language? The reason is as simple as any mind altering drug – our habits of perception are altered by the unfamiliar and the work to understand becomes a source of Little Dopamine pleasure! (as opposed to easy Big Dopamine addiction)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading academic, jargon-filled literature stirs up extra thoughts and visions. It may, when translated into plain language, be only a simple attack on the way things are or ought to be, but it is seductive in all its coy nuance. It is seductive – a big dopamine bait and switch replaced with little dopamine epiphanies! The tantalizing miracle of a little extra effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And there is always the question of whether you understood their meaning correctly or are merely lost in wonder at your own thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ha! – if you’re in touch with Ecosystems, the ideas that come to you are likely more valuable than the author’s original conceit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually, the motives behind much academic writing seem as incomprehensible as trying to figure out how many angels can sit on the head of a pin. But here is the rub – that was an academic discussion in its day almost a thousand years ago. And just like academic subjects today it was way out ahead of its time in attempting to extrapolate solutions to the problems of the human landscape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, as long as universities keep at it, I don’t care if they continue to construct and deconstruct pop culture, theology, physics, or whatever – if they fill it with obfuscating language, I’m all in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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