@joshshepperd If your department has enough obstinate long-serving faculty members who were around when the curriculum was last revised (say, a decade ago), and they remember the process as arduous, they can monkeywrench proposed revisions until they retire. Meanwhile, everyone gets older, &c.
@markasaurus I didn't experience this messaging institutionally, but I do remember the day one of my HS teachers told me I was "wasting my life" if I followed the career path I'm still on.
@mcmansionhell it's impossible for generational cycles of trauma and abuse to be broken quietly or comfortably. bring the noise. bring the mess. build something better.
@PatBlanchfield not to mention that there is actually an ongoing war featuring set-piece battles and geographically coherent belligerents, and people are still unable to come to the right conclusions about who the Bad Guys are