Why do I hate Brene Brown?

whatever happens to be the latest term for pathologising your life experience. Everything is flattened, simplified. I worried that being immersed in it was making me think this way too.

I’m also finding that my problem is that I like academics. I like disciplined, layered intellectualism. I like concentrated time and effort in interdisciplinary study. If I didn’t have so much beef with the academy, I would heavily consider becoming a professor. As much as I enjoy making my studies in revolutionary theory and history bite-sized… I

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I came to feel as if I were seeing not only undesirable parts of myself but a magnification of many undesirable aspects of our shared culture as well. The ambient and all-pervasive hunger for ever-more-fleeting relevance; the disposability with which we treat people who mess up; the trivialization of words and displacements of responsibility, and m

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it? Are we surrounded by narcissists? Have we turned into a culture of self-absorbed, grandiose people who are only interested in power, success, beauty, and being special? Are we so entitled that we actually believe that we’re superior even when we’re not really contributing or achieving anything of value? Is it true that we lack the necessary emp

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