As postmodernism and its twisted ideological offspring continue infiltrating ever deeper into the culture of the world’s leading STEM university, shining the spotlight of searing satire on the inanities of MIT’s sprawling social justice warrior complex becomes not just a sport but a moral imperative.
And so, dear readers, we invite you and your refusenik colleagues to step up to the Babbling Beaver’s Sokal Hoax Challenge. How does this work?
First, choose any MIT initiative designed to subsidize, promote, honor, or reward woke science, engineering, architectural design, urban planning, or any of the pseudosciences that constitute the core of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Socialist Scientism (SHASS). There are so many to choose from with more being launched every day, from the annual SOLVE competition to the Combatting Systemic Racism Seed Fund to the Be The Change Initiative to PKG Social Impact Internships to the Chancellor’s Cash program.
Second, submit a Sokal style application clever enough to bamboozle the gatekeeping grifters who run these programs into accepting your proposal. You need not win whatever project grant, prize, or recognition you seek. You just need to get far enough into the process to embarrass the booboisie bureaucrats who can’t tell a Sokal Hoax from the customary puerile gruel they subsist on.
Finally, submit evidence of your success to the Beaver, who will immortalize your achievement, cover you with pirate glory, and heap scorn and infamy upon your selected target.
Working together we can slow down the rate at which things are getting worse!