Do We Deserve to Fall?

Observing the endless discussions on Inside Higher Education, the ongoing overwork of lecturers at my home campus and at other places, I come to the dreaded question, the question posed by one of the cyborgs on Battlestar Gallactica.

Do "we" in fact deserve to survive?

Does the ruined university merit this much attention? isn't the siege over? hasn't the corporation won, and if it hasn't won, hasn't it transformed forever the way the university will function and how the counter-university, the anti-university or whatever its binary opposite is -- isn't already clear how that functions too?

Knowledge must continue, sure. Education must continue, sure.

But the university?

Maybe not.

What will/ should take its place?