Addendum.

Also, one of the stupidest f*cking things I've ever seen in my life is how in the Humanities, you write a dissertation, and then if you get into a tenure-track job, you spend years RE-WRITING THE SAME MATERIAL IN A DIFFERENT FORMAT, because you have to have a book as part of the job requirements.

Can you imagine that being a job-practice in any other half-sane field, where you spend years on a project and you've moved it through to completion on the level of findings, and then they're like, "Um, now we want you to say pretty much the same thing, but with different organization and style, and that's what you should be doing for the next several years," with them never really going back and revisiting the process and modifying *that*, so that on the one hand you can achieve whatever the desired final product is the first time around, and so that on the other you can then move on in turn onto something else instead of performing years on essentially what's an unneeded re-write.

It's just colossal mismanagement and sheer waste of time and energy, and it just makes the field look so extravagant and out-of-touch, and even strange.

The behavior of tenured professors is so much appallingly worse than people at large know, and inasmuch as it takes place at places that get public money, it's really unacceptable.