A global communications network has made it difficult for new voices to be heard. Everything becomes more homogenized. Academia is not taking on the role of fostering new ideas, but instead creates requirements for unoriginal, though formally correct, work. The thesis becomes a perfunctory task which has no reason to be performed. The role of the intellectual and scientist is to be a creative agent in society, but the direction of social organizations makes this increasingly difficult.
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