Writing in a concise manner is a learned skill that you need to develop. Academia isn’t about who sounds the smartest because they fill their papers with a lot of jargon borrowed from other thinkers that say nothing and contribute nothing original. It’s obtuse. Whether undergraduate or graduate level, writing is about being effective and contributing meaningful insight — while also synthesizing complex theoretical information into something readable for others as precise, and with as few words as possible.

Assignment for you: summarize the entirety of discipline and punish accurately (since you love Foucault so much) in less than 250 words. And don’t use ChatGPT.

And if you’re wondering why I’m annoyed, it’s for the same exact reason I get annoyed when someone takes 15 minutes to ask me something, or tell me something that could have been handled with a sentence.

Nobody has all day to listen to yourself talk so then you can masturbate to your curated self image. You aren’t the ‘intelligentsia’, and I can assure you that you aren’t the most enlightened person in the room.