the building blocks of the world are choices

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled... Fulfillment is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal... It comes to and end and has to start over. The thing about working with time, instead of against it... is that it is not wasted. Every pain counts.

| Ursula K. Le Guin

we literally make whole academic fields to justify oppression... like we have done that historically and continue to do it but we only begin to understand that in a historical context... formalized education as a state apparatus ... AND ALSO how political understanding/civic engagement are not essential to all fields of study, even tho they are the basis for why those certain fields exist / the impetus for so much topographies of 'the academy' in current contexts,