To those who I've not responded to and were waiting for a reply, apologies but I won't get round to it this time. My unread messages are in the several hundreds. It's time to mark all as read and start again!
Sorry to hear that. I get like that sometimes, too. That's when I post the most because I don't have energy for much else. That feeling would be fairly constant at the moment, given the state of the world, Palestine in particular, if I e.g. read the papers or watched the news. I mostly stopped looking, for that reason. It's okay to switch off from some things to gather your strength.
Try to take it easy sometimes if you can. Your studies are important and you want to do well, but you won't be able to keep it all up if you end up too burned out. Is there a more efficient way of studying? There might not be, but it's worth thinking about, just in case.
I used to lurk on the Marxist subreddits for theory discussions as I was feeling my way through the classics. There were always to many reactionaries and bad faith arguments for me to get involved other than reading. Then I saw a link to here and I've been lurking since the beginning. I made an account when I was confident enough with my Marxism to join in.
Next time it happens, appeal to the university's sense of let's-not-get-mired-in-a-legal-battle-it-could-be-really-expensive-and-bad-for-our-reputation. You know now (and likely knew before), they don't have a sense of morality.
Do you have the same experience with many books? For maybe five or more years, now, I've only been able to enjoy a handful of novels past the first third-or-so. I just can't keep up the momentum. Stress at work comes in periodic cycles, about every three weeks. It's the way my industry is set up, with how deadlines fall. When that happens and I can't read as much, I just lose interest in the characters 😔
There's only one thing we can do, really. Overthrow capitalism. There'll still be lots to say about it's final days. But at least we would stop creating new events and examples to discuss.
Oh, only for eating all the grain 🌾🍽️