Make up incomprehensible rubbish at an early stage and with the right kind of leverage and the right contacts you've a good chance to have written a founding paper. It's got more in common with the 19th land rush in the US than with rigorous academic development.
nauticant, well said. Its embryonic period was American Academia, but it has spread like a Californian wildfire and has a vice like grip on the apparatus of power throughout the West. Watching the corporate capitulation to this newspeak nonsense would be comical. But none of this is remotely funny. When you have an aggressive pressure group who want to invoke the power of the state to prevent people giving the dictionary definition of ‘woman?’ This is time to realize that 1984 is no longer a work of historical, dystopian satire...