“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,” is my favorite of all his refusals—how wild and free, to prefer not to be a little reasonable!
Contemporary wellness culture possesses at its core an assumption that deviant bodies (mad, unwell, sick, disabled, maimed, and anyone designated as such) are expressions of moral degeneracy, and are therefore marked for elimination, and where embodied moral consideration of systemic cruelties is deemed a kind of whiny debasement of spiritual atten... See more