I Does the average person go around looking over their shoulder, feeling “unsafe?” When I left Reeducation, the only explanation it would accept was that I “did not feel safe” in it. I played this card in desperation, for Reeducation was saying but, but, but, how did I expect to live without it, and so … More On “Feeling Unsafe”
I have said several times in these pages that I do not find change difficult. I did, however, find the change asked of me in Reeducation difficult. This task involved changing my focus in life from joy and pleasure to suffering and pain. I did not want to take this plunge and it was very … More Pinch and Reversal
Ravensraving’s Post It is always very interesting to see who is supposed to “let go” and “forgive” for what, and who is supposed to remain angry. If you are the white relative of a white murder victim, it may be “cold” not to be ever angry and vengeful. But if you are a Black person … More On Cassandra. On Letting Go
HYPOTHESIS Another difference I have with Reeducation, as well as with popular psychology generally and also much standard advice on how to “strategize” and hedge your bets so as to “succeed,” is that all of these modes of thought involve so much convolution. Simplicity and directness are not allowed, because it is assumed people are … More On Convolution
Bueno, gente, I want to start this meme while it is hot even though I, personally, will have to come back later to do a really good job at it, as it will take some thought. But the meme is, a) what are you actually ashamed of, and b) what have you been shamed for? … More Self-Tagging Shame Meme
Now it is time to link to On Shame, the best post ever of all those I have read. Read it at its home, because I am only reproducing the opening riff. After this it gets truly deep. After unabashedly complaining about having an single income family, of which she is not the earner, that … More The Best Post Ever
Since, very tragically, I cannot find my files I have decided I will fly blind into class, grounded in what I know from the last time I taught this subject and in what I have been thinking about it over the past few days. Instead of refining the beautiful handouts I cannot find, I will … More On Level Playing Fields
Few people know that the Reeducation I actually undertook was not my first attempt. My first, short-lived attempt took place in Brazil. I had long planned to seek Reeducation and where I was living, everyone I knew was in Reeducation. If you had dollars and a good black market money changer, Reeducation with a Famous … More Brazilian Reeducation
From Andy Blunden’s article: Kant offers a several alternative formulations of [the] categorical imperative. In the Science of Right, [he] draws on a maxim of Roman law to introduce a crucial additional nuance to [it]: Honeste vive [“live rightly”]: juridical rectitude, or honour, consists in maintaining one’s own worth as a man in relation to … More Kant on Integrity
Elena Garro returned as a writer after being silenced and then resisting this imposition through the deployment of an active silence, over a period of thirteen years. That is inspiring. However, Rip van Winkle woke up after sleeping for twelve years, and I have been comparing my sleep of Reeducation to his. This blog points … More On Odysseus and the Gods
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