The Language Of The Other
“Othering” is a pretty basic psychological trick used to create distance between people. “We are different from them.” “They aren’t like us.” “Those people.” Its use ranges from the absurd to the...
View ArticleThe Dish’s Feminism Problem
If you read Andrew Sullivan’s website, The Dish, you might be familiar with his latest controversy over feminism and SJWs. In short, Sullivan thinks that Twitter working with activists to clamp down on...
View ArticleWhat Does Failure Even Mean Anymore?
I was listening to the Diane Rhem show a few weeks ago and a caller said something to the effect of “the tax system is the US is a total failure.” Problematic? Sure. But a total failure? C’mon. When...
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View ArticleIs This Reality?
I’m working my way through my backlog of podcasts, leftover from my trip to the US, and currently am listening to Slate’s Culture Gabfest. The show discusses Karl Knausgård’s piece My Saga in the New...
View ArticleWhat Does Failure Even Mean Anymore?
I was listening to the Diane Rhem show a few weeks ago and a caller said something to the effect of “the tax system is the US is a total failure.” Problematic? Sure. But a total failure? C’mon. When...
View Article#JeSuisCharlie
RIP Una foto pubblicata da Banksy (@banksy) in data: Gen 1, 2015 at 3:02 PST
View ArticleIs This Reality?
I’m working my way through my backlog of podcasts, leftover from my trip to the US, and currently am listening to Slate’s Culture Gabfest. The show discusses Karl Knausgård’s piece My Saga in the New...
View ArticleIn this age of being so online, we do we still meet face to face?
That was the question I wanted to answer for Dutch News. ‘We learn a lot from body language, voice tonality, and other non-verbal cues,’ says Dr Irwin. Ultimately, most people want to see each other...
View ArticleModeration
The news, a Swiss self-help guru claims, is worse than alcoholism. Swiss writer Rolf Dobelli wrote a piece called Avoid the News, which was a major inspiration for Dutch journalist Rob Wijnberg, who...
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