04:11"Barely a generation ago, California had a university system that provided a free, world-class education to all the California high school graduates who could get in; you don’t want to romanticize it too much — it had serious problems too — but you also can’t underscore that fact deeply enough. A generation ago, a California high school graduate with good grades could go to one of the University of California campuses and get a degree that was at least comparable, in every way, to the degree you’d get from Harvard or Yale, and pay almost nothing for it. Today, a degree from one of these public universities will cost you more than a degree from Harvard or Yale. They are no longer public universities in any meaningful sense of the term: they are now publicly-subsidized, state-run private universities. In a very concrete way, in fact, their function is to train workers (so businesses don’t have to) and produce new technologies and expertise (so businesses don’t have to), and to use tuition funds to do it, thereby quite effectively funneling money out of the middle class into the financial sector, which sucks up student debt like candy." — Aaron Brady, who’s done some great reporting on what’s been going on with the increasing privatization of what used to be an amazing public university system. It needs to be said as clearly as possible that once California guaranteed its citizens a quality university education as a right, and then decided that they’d rather not. It’s pretty fucking depressing how far down we’ve come, really. (via youthisastateofmind)
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00:03
i have the same fantasy every time i listen to “marching bands of manhattan” by death cab for cutie. i imagine myself driving somewhere, hopefully a new state, to a new life. and the sun’s gonna be shining and im not gonna listen to some of the lyrics, im just gonna listen to the music and realize that everything’s gonna be fucking great. i will be bigger than my pain someday.
16:53
when your best friend is sad and you’re like
