Josef
@sancta__simp
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psychotherapist · NYC émigré · interested in the history of ideas · meadows and wildflowers · things counter, original, spare, strange · family man
Joined June 2013
Time for some gratitude. We moved from NYC to a village in central NY last year. Kids planted a native wildflower meadow. We go hiking in the back yard. Doubt I'd have had the confidence go for it without seeing posts from the likes of @simonsarris and @OldHollowTree. Thanks!
TPOT as a culture is starting to crumble. The cracked and based anime PFP types are under-employed. The people telling you "you can just do things" are on year 2 of not doing anything. The pictures of IDE's open on coffee shop tables are nowhere to be found. The "you can learn
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Yes, some desperately need these meds. Yes, this sentiment is completely idiotic.
@AllenFrancesMD Your tweet risks discouraging those who genuinely benefit from antidepressants. Many young people have been helped by antidepressants and live fuller lives because of them. The problem isn’t the medicines themselves, but how and when they’re used. We should be careful not to
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We are the authors of all our thoughts and actions. We claim only some as ours, and disown others. When we claim them, we say “I”: “I feel anxious.” When we disclaim them, we say “it”: “It wasn’t me, it was the alcohol.” “It came out wrong.” The devil made me do it.” “It’s my
wtf is with everyone talking about their "nervous system" all of a sudden. Instead of "I feel anxious" its "my nervous system is dysregulated" or something. What is that?
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The fact that any little town with a big box store and a high school has employed six planning & building code inspectors and a human resource department at town hall with eighteen employees, but not a single salaried court composer says all I need to know about the modern world.
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Politicians: we need more jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs People who enjoy life: “hey we could produce WAY more food of better quality in the Midwest if we had the manpower and expertise to more intensively manage land with care and attention” Them: 😐 no not like that
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Political exoterics seem to believe that philosophy can be made safe for the city and the city safe for philosophy. In retrospect, that looks like an absurd hope. There is something repugnant about immoderation.
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But it cannot be seriously maintained that the main purpose of academic publication is for what is published to be read. If it were otherwise, academia would organize itself so as to publish far, far less.
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I know it feels hard sometimes but you really do live in one of the best times in history to build, make, or grow things. You can do it.
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I’d agree, except for the part about “our profession" There is no profession There’s no consensus about what “therapy” is, or what a “therapist” is. There are no meaningful standards for entering training, or completing it. Anyone can call themselves a “therapist” and anyone
Our profession is sleepwalking into commoditizing itself: ‘… the true political potential of psychotherapy lies not in being seen by a familiar mirror but in being challenged by a different one.’👇🔥
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Most of us would be better off never “learning” anything about the orbits of planets or the inner workings of plants. We spoon feed children scientific models that both dull their curiosity and provide no inkling of how this knowledge is won.
We should ask more questions like this. What do we "know" on authority, and what do we truly understand?
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By "valuing creativity and leadership," college admissions caused a gameification of creativity and leadership--thus making each new cohort of applicants less creative and more profoundly conformist.
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Rather amazing that in this hour-long “invitation to have a reckoning” not a single sentence invited us to consider the role of prestige media in shutting down debate. Unsurprising perhaps, but I still marvel at the cognitive dissonance.
"It's an invitation to have a reckoning." - @mikiebarb Were the Covid Lockdowns Worth It? - The New York Times https://t.co/gVexM3hKA0
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If you get a thrill from cruelty, most people would see you as mean-spirited and hateful But if you do the same thing and call it “accountability,” you can earn social capital for it And with this Orwellian newspeak, we’ve unleashed a cultural epidemic of sadistic aggression
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I’ve often found myself thinking something like this. And yet, though raising and loving my kids—exhausting my energies in linking generation to generation—will quiet the questions, it may not actually provide an answer to them.
I do feel that a lot of my amorphous angst about “is this really what life is” was just 100% solved by having kids
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What would a decaying society look like, you ask?
nytimes.com
A new father reflects on the feelings of regret he has around becoming a parent.
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When you falsify what you know for momentary convenience, you implicate yourself in the outcomes you’ve enabled. If you keep up this knowledge falsification for months and years, you implicate yourself in the resulting inefficiencies, mismanagement, and global disasters. We’re
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No entity bears greater responsibility for the conspiracism that’s taken hold than the prestige press. Consider this partial list of stories that the major media got wrong, often out of a combination of ideological commitment and a desire to please those in power: 1. Iraq WMD
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