I’ll show you the life of the mind

This article has been making the rounds; I got it from a twittering Sepoy. I’ve been trying to figure out what exactly the motivation for the lie is. Is it exploitative? (if we don’t have graduate students, we will have to teach Intro to Whatever Studies ourselves!) Evil? (let’s take bright, naïve young people full of hope, run them through the meat grinder and see what comes out the other side!) Lazy? (I don’t know what she’s going to do with a PhD in medieval Hungarian ballads, but I’m sure she’ll think of something) Ignorant? (there’s a shortage of tenure-track jobs?) Denial-filled? (the job market is sure to improve!)