They make it sounds as if being an administrator is fun. Surely the best job in physics is to be someone who gets to spend nearly all of their time doing research and has job security and few responsibilities.
I voted this up because I agree with the first paragraph, but I don't like most of the specific big questions you list here.
I can't think of any way of saying this without sounding mean, but the type of big questions you list here are the stuff of pseudo-intellectuals. These are Omni magazine big questions (if anyone here remembers that). I'd prefer Economist big questions.
