When you stop expecting improvement and learn to endure, you serve Nurgle—the god who celebrates resilience while the buildings literally fall apart.

Nurgle doesn't arrive. You simply wake up one day too tired to care.

This episode explores how academia's permanent crisis creates Nurglesque acceptance: the teaching evaluations that never change anything, the pile of ungraded papers that grows until three weeks becomes normal, the research agenda that quietly contracts from "transform the field" to "publish enough to not get fired." We examine how individual academics lower their expectations until survival becomes achievement, how departments develop workaround systems for broken processes, and how universities celebrate endurance while infrastructure decays.

Nurgle offers relief from hope—you don't have to be excellent anymore, just present. But this relief is corruption. The casual contracts no one acknowledges. The committee meetings where the same issues appear year after year, unresolved. The acceptance that strategic plans are performative.

From the comfort of formulaic paper structures to the fellowship of mutual complaint that changes nothing, this episode traces how exhaustion becomes wisdom—until we're too trapped to leave and too tired to fight.

The god of sanctified decay doesn't rule through suffering. He rules through the relief of lowered expectations.

More details are available in the book, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCFWD29C

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