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  • aeiou@piefed.socialtosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.netWetlands
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    4 days ago

    ‘Big Yellow Taxi’ is overused, so here’s a different song to lament beautiful environments crushed into dust:

    'They went down to the river, found the riverbed dry
    Lost Eden in the valley, where the hummingbird cried
    They went down to the shoreline in white rags and veils
    And drew out in the sand a lament for the trail

    They went down to the valley, where the valley once laid
    With reeds under the branches, where nightingales played
    They bowed down to the north star as the last note was sung
    With the sins of their fathers, their whole world was done.’




  • Semi-related: The right-wing economist Roger Freeman, advisor to both Reagan and Nixon was vehemently and openly against education for everyone, declaring that an ‘educated proletariat’ was like ‘dynamite’ and would somehow lead to student riots and the devaluation of higher education, openly pushing for education for elites only.

    He was also a major influence on federal student loan program - some credit him as the architect of American student debt.

    I do wonder if his attempts to push right wingers against higher education has harmed US education as a whole.