Copper Kettle

Does anyone call an officer of the law a "copper" anymore? What does it take to create your own institute of higher learning and give yourself postsecondary degrees, freely, of course? In other words, how do we break the out-of-proportion business of higher education? By not conforming to historical precedents that confer greatness on CVs stuffed with formal educational accomplishments. Either you are or are not capable of performing roles you take on or are assigned to you. If you are not, you take the initiative to learn new skills. Academic gatekeepers become contractual consultants like everybody else. JIT OJT keeps us primed, plum, happy and optimally functional. Complexity breeds exclusivity breeds jealous happily-ignorant but desperately-starving barbarians putting ever-increasing pressure on the dammed/jammed gates. Seams weaken and fail, contorting, twisting, falling. BURST! BUSTED! And then...? We start all over again.