[???] I'm not sure what that was supposed to mean...  it sounds, prima facie, provocatively condescending, as if it were about to veer into a ritual snarkfest about birkenstocks and granola (neither of which figures largely in my daily routine) -- and doesn't actually address any specific point.  Care to expand a bit?

As it so happens, my credentialled function at UC Santa Cruz is to be a senior technocrat in Big Science.  I am leaving the institution -- among other reasons -- because I've come to the end of my rope w/that culture :-)

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...