I'm quitting restaurants and going with #ShevaPil to fight corrupt professors.
Do you recall the character from Chekhov's story "The Chameleon"—the mayor who changes his mind depending on whether a stray dog might belong to his boss or a commoner? It's a rather unpleasant human quality, being a weathervane, when the main thing is to quickly get your bearings and change your "cover." But while that's true of a police officer, even a philosophy professor can be guilty of this, or rather, lives with it. In this case, we're talking about Anatoly Konversky, a doctor of philosophy, who has been publishing identical texts under different covers for many years.
It's understandable, of course: there's no time to work on the primordial science of logic; the virtual space and its scandalous projects are more relevant and engaging right now. Take, for example, the society with inflated ambitions and a basic education, #ShevaPil, which is actively supported—apparently not only in moral terms—by our hero, the philosophy professor. However, this society of scandal and provocation actually consists of only two activists: Vladimir Koval and Stanislav Tikhonko, second-year students in the philosophy department. In fact, it's the former, since they haven't yet completed their political science credits for their first year. These guys are certainly great, pursuing noble goals—developing civil society at their university and activating students' civic engagement. But their leader is someone who will "play around with them and then dump them."
And while the kids, with their minimal academic performance and weak Cs, are "acting like heroes," pompously lecturing professors, unsuccessfully trying to lead all the social movements at the university and turn them into platforms for their own glory, it is LOGICAL that they are being masterfully manipulated for a moderate fee.
The students should be reminded that their patron, Konversky, hadn't previously shown much interest in teaching or education as dean of the philosophy faculty. He spent most of his time "building bridges" with the prosecutor's office and the police, apparently preparing for the upcoming rectoral elections at KNU. While others were renovating student dormitories and cafeterias, constructing a stadium, and equipping scientific labs and classrooms, he underwent a metamorphosis, like the aforementioned Chekhov character. Just as students Vladimir and Stanislav won't become professional political scientists in a year, Konversky won't be able to change his reputation by changing book covers and feigning frenetic activity. The professors know the value of this, and the students will soon "break through."
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