1/ Sixteen psychoanalytic concepts for our time (updated) 🧵
Splitting: Perceiving others in black-and-white categories; seeing them as one-dimensional, as all good or all bad
rereading "Slaughterhouse-Five" & Vonnegut's constant refrain throughout the book — "So it goes" — is a perfect distillation of my general attitude now
Fulbright Hays, an anti-Communist US foreign policy program to win hearts and minds to liberal democracy is killed by Marco Rubio, foaming at the mouth anti-Communist who wants to win hearts and minds for what ideology exactly?
what is this pejorative "academia"? this term is tossed about like a badminton birdie.
universities consist of academic departments: departments consist of faculty members of varying ranks, ages, experience, talents. any departmental meeting will likely be, if not quarrelsome,