Babel, or The Necessity of Violence

4-4.5 somewhere in there.

there's a lot to think about and digest for this book. the area of academia as being innocent from the systems that it serves etc and the narratvies around breaking the system vs working in the system vs escaping an inevitable system are so well done and felt hella real during/after stanford research

my qualms are that it just kinda beats u on the head with the concepts but language is wonderful and the concepts are compelling so im more or less ok with it as a reader but rly vibed as a person.