All this paragrad fantasy stuff might work on your PhD students … but we’re not as credulous. It’s a story you tell the MAs and PhDs to glorify their general servility and fucked-up lives. It’s what you tell postgraduate students before you tuck them into bed at night. It’s a bedside story to give them hope. The way you distract them from the fact that they’re going nowhere, that there are no jobs, that there’s nothing to do, that it’s all going nowhere but down, down down.
They’re good stories, though.
Sure, they’re good stories.
Work in Progress 