#I've been thinking about Vietnam and agent orange too and agrichemicals in general and how they're used

[vibinwiththefrogs]

I have spent most my life up to a couple years ago just working to get into college and now that I'm in college I'm just so jaded about it all. Because while I love academics and theoretically I love school, every day at my school and other schools I see how school administrations make it hard for minority students, how free speech is squashed despite them claiming to be beacons of it, how research conducted at universities gets privatized and put behind pay walls or used for war. Idk it's the last day of school for this semester and I've been following all the protests and encampments, and I do see the good people who ARE in university staff. But also, all I can see now is bare connections to capitalism and state violence.

#an encampment wouldnt happen here because our school is like 90% white mostly rural and conservative #but I've just been thinking about it and other Georgia university system schools yno? #is there truly public research? #i feel like there isn't because you always need a donor or funds from somewhere yno #I've been thinking about Vietnam and agent orange too and agrichemicals in general and how they're used #I've been thinking about the agrochemical company nearby that my professors keeps mentioning is israeli owned #and idk yno? all kinds of swirling thoughts