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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Replace “grad student” with “former catholic” and that’s my husband. Lots of deprogramming still needed on that one.

Does this mean academia is like the catholic church?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

It's a neoliberalized (bastardised) model of an medieval apprenticeship, gather what you can from that.

IME both have a lot of memorization, impossible standards, and clandestine sex, so yeah there are parallels. Divinity school must be a fucking cesspool.