We can cite examples of university professors who reportedly gave up greater academic freedom in exchange for being at a more highly prestigious institution. And examples of professors who left an ivy-league institution to join a school with less prestige, in order to have greater academic freedom to pursue the unconventional. That all seems incongruous. What is Creator’s perspective?

This nicely illustrates how upside down things are. One would think those who are more creative, those who can think outside the box, who become the true innovators and make the greatest breakthrough discoveries, would rise to the top tier and be greatly rewarded by their peers in landing the best academic appointments, and rewarded lavishly with grant money to pursue whatever ideas they might have, given a growing track record of success. So once that becomes established, all in a given field of inquiry will see and recognize the up-and-coming hotshots who are bubbling with ideas and have a true gift for research. After all, this is how prestigious institutions have gained their reputation, by supporting some of the best and brightest minds who become the great thinkers and contributors to scientific advancement, at least that is how it is supposed to be. In actuality, this is all relative, so what passes as the greatest thinkers and greatest innovations and inventions is highly subjective. So it does not take all that much in comparison to the mundane, the ordinary mediocrity of people devoid of creativity, to create a point of differentiation that seems worthy of great reward but does not truly speak to what is possible if the system were truly open and unfettered. In reality, humanity does not see what it is truly capable of, there are only occasional breakthroughs of great meaning and value. Whereas most things are an incremental improvement and more interesting information than truly useful knowledge, and because it is hard-won and might be quite elegant in the way it was pursued, and opens up many new areas of investigation in helping to understand with greater detail and precision the working mechanisms of nature, but again more interesting information than practical utility may come out of it. What is not seen is that the sum total of human productivity is being managed to keep it at a modest level at best, and that harms everyone as a result because there are so many needs still unattended and unsatisfied. So this interesting differentiation in how the institutions conduct their affairs, and the level of freedom granted to the participants, is a good illustration there is something sinister at work that truly stifles initiative and limits progress, even as it seems to provide greater rewards. But that truly rings hollow if the prestige is not truly deserved, and is simply an inflated self-rewarding system that is orchestrated to promote narrow thinking and constraints on creativity, despite the lofty reputations of the presumed top-tier institutions.