Generations of war on drugs rhetoric rotted everyones brain

These people are so fucking boring.

Listen anything that preemptively allows me to write off the opinions of people who disagree with me and let me feel superior must be true!

Libraries are a part of this but not a panacea and if its your only suggestion you are not thinking very deeply about this problem imo.

Large corporate ownership and exclusivity and a market of extraction in which creative works have to swim leads to piracy. Robust social and cultural institutions of knowledge distribution, economic security, etc reduce piracy. The individual level doesn't matter, the institutional level does.

"A truly working class organisation can never collaborate with the State as do the trade unions. When the unions were first formed the State persecuted them, now it has won them over and incorporated them in the machinery of the State."

Tom Brown, "Trade Unionism or Syndicalism?"

Never was a story of more fun than of Juliet and her womanly expectation.

I'm reminded of Graeber talking about the conversion of Universities into banks as debt became increasingly fundamental to higher ed. I think he was spot on, these universities are acting like market agents rather than principled institutions. You can expect no better from Harvard than Wal Mart.

Citations Needed has a good dozens of episodes covering this. This shit makes me feel like I'm losing my mind.

You ignore BADALEX_ and his knowledge of academia at your own peril.

It's not that building more housing isn't certainly part of the solution to the housing crisis. Deregulation and an increase in housing stock may help middle income earners. But without housing as a mandated human right the most vulnerable among us will remain unhoused.