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Wholesome: An agroecology professor called on me to describe the primary contradiction of capitalism
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And then after class said that she would like to teach another one where the question is "should we even have a livestock industry at all?". I told her that I'd love to teach one where I just make the students repeatedly read The Jungle and Grapes of Wrath until they start burning shit down and she replied that it already seems like we're heading that way.
My only good professor.
grapes has a few banger passages but overall i found it incredibly tedious, even at a time in my life when i was a voracious reader of nonfiction. considering how even more addled everyone's brains are these days i'd expect you'd have more success assigning the excerpts rather than the whole text.
That's what it would be. The Okie dialect alone is a hard thing to read through and I assume everyone is going to be cheating with AI summaries now. I'd want to highlight the broad themes of land use, population displacement, commodification, and the demographic dimensions to apply them as the leading question in a discussion elective where the only real grade is participation/a brief presentation.