One Day Yavanna's Gonna Cut You Down
So the textbook placed, unsolicited, in my faculty box turned out to be a climate-change denying textbook from the Heartland Institute.
Thanks for that tax day surprise, Heartland. But since I can't actually give you a piece of my mind in person, let me fantasize a moment....
Dear Heartland Institute,
Do not send me your crap "science" textbook on how modern global climate change is perfectly natural and probably benefits most of Africa. I get that you have a propaganda wing. That doesn't mean that I don't find it highly offensive that you actually have, objectively, the money-backed "right" to lie about an issue that is going to kill/is killing lots and lots of people and animals, just because your groundless faith in "free-market solutions to social and economic problems" is pleasing unto capital. I'd frankly rather be evangelized by a group that believes in Robert Sawyer's fiction than a bunch of corporately-connected libertarians pushing something actually deadly: complete, total refusal to confront facts honestly.
I will give you this, however, Heartland: at least you valued your book appropriately according to your own free-market ideology: I got it for free.
So did the trash can.
No love,
Dwim
/venting
Good thing these guys don't send textbook reps to campus. I mean, the usual run of the mill textbook rep is generally harmless, but irritating. I don't know whether I'd be able to be convincingly polite if these guys came round.
*One day Yavanna's gonna cut you down
Thanks for that tax day surprise, Heartland. But since I can't actually give you a piece of my mind in person, let me fantasize a moment....
Dear Heartland Institute,
Do not send me your crap "science" textbook on how modern global climate change is perfectly natural and probably benefits most of Africa. I get that you have a propaganda wing. That doesn't mean that I don't find it highly offensive that you actually have, objectively, the money-backed "right" to lie about an issue that is going to kill/is killing lots and lots of people and animals, just because your groundless faith in "free-market solutions to social and economic problems" is pleasing unto capital. I'd frankly rather be evangelized by a group that believes in Robert Sawyer's fiction than a bunch of corporately-connected libertarians pushing something actually deadly: complete, total refusal to confront facts honestly.
I will give you this, however, Heartland: at least you valued your book appropriately according to your own free-market ideology: I got it for free.
So did the trash can.
No love,
Dwim
/venting
Good thing these guys don't send textbook reps to campus. I mean, the usual run of the mill textbook rep is generally harmless, but irritating. I don't know whether I'd be able to be convincingly polite if these guys came round.
*One day Yavanna's gonna cut you down