sidereal on Nostr: Kinda a hot take but many aspects of the university system were explicitly developed ...

Kinda a hot take but many aspects of the university system were explicitly developed in service of Empire and this is part of why so many modern universities are close with the defense industry today.

After all, who was the real colonialist vanguard? Before even the soldiers and settlers came: surveyors, cartographers, geologists, and anthropologists.

The old fashioned "gentlemen explorers." Most of these dudes went to a university somewhere.