The cannibalistic academic system has a dark history of "dead" intellectuals as a workforce. Eric Weinstein lays it out there, bare, for Lex Fridman.

Here's a generated thought: Honest intellectuals and academics do not play games, but dishonest intellectuals and academics assume everyone does. Change is coming - a massive inversion of the rules for "academia". Those holding onto to secret languages, secret knowledge, secret agendas are losing their grip on "knowledge". Eric is the master of the soft sell. Those who cannot recognize that old patterns and constructs will fall will find themselves actually learning and re-discovering the love of learning for the first time in decades.