:LIB: alert I know but I'm in a pickle as I think about grad school. I already have a degree in poli sci and international relations that was slightly painful to get through with all the pro-IMF and :vote: rhetoric, but I enjoyed myself ultimately and it got me into a pseudo organizing role. Feeling stuck tho and I'm thinking of grad school, but I'm afraid any public policy or urban design track will just be neo liberal pablem to the max. And I'm concerned about becoming a little cog in the machine perpetuating this horrorshow we live in. But at the same time policy is fascinating and I love it so much and there's the shrimp brain part of me that thinks I could make a difference, no matter how small. Anyone else dealing with this?

  • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    Does it advance the cause of socialism to flagellate yourself for not sufficiently adhering to a proletarian aesthetic?

    This conversation comes up a lot. Don't turn down a paycheck from anyone unless they make bombs or the ethical equivalent of bombs. In the best case, you may do some good. In the worst case, you may be so incompetent as to slow down the machinery you're paid to be a part of. And either way you have the coin of the realm to funnel into The Work. And so it is with education, analogically.