rob hardy

a successful malignant ideology will promise to make your life better while actually sabotaging it and making it worse in ways that seem to prove the ideology correct. the more you follow it, the worse everything gets, while you become more and more devoted to it. demonic even.

So, can you really condemn the Manosphere for saying “it’s all a scam and the strong take from the weak” while celebrating excessive stock buybacks or the leveraged buyout that extracts value by loading debt onto the acquired company and laying off its workforce? Is there that much difference between the (1) manosphere playbook of extracting value... See more

The obsession with statistical norms has turned psychology into a system for pathologizing difference. Any deviation from statistical norms is labeled a "disorder." Instead of understanding the full spectrum of human experience, we rush to correct it.

This is precisely what Jung fought against.3 He saw this for what it was: not science, but... See more

What cynics cannot tolerate - which is why they’ve become a core part of the anti-tech movement - is unresolved ambiguity , particularly at the horizon of our ambition where progress is fuzzy and aspirational.