thinking about the re-naming of commons at yale and i feel like it’s just such a massive metaphor for the current economic climate both wrt higher education but also more generally. like they’re literally taking a building that was called commons and was (kind of, sort of, especially before they ditched dinner) a common place and rebranding it with the name of a rich capitalist like talk about the symbolism here of dismantling a public good and sweeping those needs into the hands of private wealthy individuals who may well have their own agendas it’s like literally a sign of privatization