From Posthegemony: In an era when capitalism is assumed to be not only efficient but also a source of freedom, the careerist seems like the agent of an easy-going tolerance and pluralism. Unlike the ideologue, whose great sin is to think too much and want too much from politics, the careerist is a genial caretaker … More On “Lethal Careerism”
Psychofraud Quotation #1: CBT relies on a patient buying the therapist’s perspective of the patient. Good psychotherapy exists where the opposite happens: psychotherapists are trained to understand the patient’s perspective. In CBT the patient must therefore be ‘socialised’ [made to believe in and comply with] the CBT model in order for it to have any … More On Reeducation: Other Researchers Speak
WM: Do you think A caused B, which, as we know, is causing C? Do you think we might still be vulnerable to the same error we made when we chose A? Do we need to consider the underlying causes which may have impelled us to choose A? Z: I think A may have been … More Visiting with da Whiteman
I Now listen to the second part of West’s discussion, and the third. Via Qlipoth. I also like this lecture of Cornel’s, given at Brown University earlier this year. I would like to have it on CD, to listen to while driving. II In other radical Sunday news, I have discovered a new career alternative: … More Cornel West: To Be a Leftist in the 21st Century
I Much is said of the “victim mentality” but I have rarely met anyone who had it, and those who did were primarily privileged individuals who felt entitled to even more. I think the fiction of the “victim mentality” as a characteristic of victims is a tool of those who would have us excuse perpetrators … More On Perpetrator Mentality
I When I began studying the matter of verbal and emotional abuse – originally so as to discern whether I were in an abusive relationship, then to figure out how to leave it, and finally to figure out how to get over it – I ran across a text which said that the problem with … More Restructuring
“I do not know whether I fear failure, or success,” writes a friend. I know him quite well and I am sure he fears both. Failure, because he has had a hard time lately and feels weak; to fail would be to suffer yet another blow. Success, because he would lose his identity as underdog, … More On “Fear of Success”
Playful I am 52% Geek and 74% Addicted to Blogging. Now you, too, can play these pleasant games. Violent I reiterate that the dicta “you have no power,” “it is ‘dysfunctional’ to believe you have any power,” “you must renounce power” and all similar statements are arguably the meanest and most destructive which can be … More Playful, Violent, Dreaming, Waking, Pure, Comical
That you should not exert power or have control in your life was one of the main themes of Reeducation. I have explained to myself before, in numerous posts on Reeducation and the relevant comments threads, why this is a fallacy. I still have a bad habit of relinquishing power. Relinquishing power means neglecting the … More Sur le pouvoir
Clearly, race-based scholarships pegged to people of color are not based on notions of racial superiority or innate difference. They are predicated only on the notion that there have been real differences in opportunity on the basis of race, and that these opportunity gaps should be remedied to the greatest extent possible. Secondly, such efforts … More The Manufacturing of White Victimhood
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