The mentor-mentee relationship is sacrosanct. You can’t have balances like power like those.
That was one excellent about all my mentors in science, even my last mentor who was a nice person but kinda stupid socially in retrospect.
He was a good scientist and a genuinely nice person but he was also really pretty stupid. I think he is deluded that those Google creeps etc quite possibly would be ..those guys don’t seem that stable. To be elite these days is to basically signal that you won’t rock the status quo at all more than the bare minimum if even that can be avoided.
I think it is that stale concept of “surprise minimization” at work. These people are seriously why I never considered having children.
But I digress. In spite of my disappointment with my last mentor that he knows people i consider a societal parasite like Google etc, which means he is either sleazy or kinda stupid and I would really like it to be stupid but it’s actually a twisted form of support.
I plan to attack that institution some day.
So I like to leave digital traces indicating that I am never attacking my mentor for all that he is a sellout at a not very obvious level. He is not sleazy like a normal human. But the more intelligent you are the more is expected of you.
To know a major part of contemporary elite is to know some of the most awful and failed humans in human history so far who show no signs of being remotely redeemable in the far future.
But all that aside, at least he was never inappropriate or creepy like these guys nor at all sexist himself even if it was either being a dupe or kinda sleazy to buy into those creeps.
But at least he was always a decent and professional mentor. Thats a sacred relationship. Thats so fucking creepy. I wouldn’t say it’s like a parent but there is a distinctly creepy and incestuous feel to these boss employee or mentor mentee things.
And my main mentor was awesome. He is like one of us..he is very pro his people as much as he can.
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