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Think of it as a massive experiment in mind control.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
We’ve gone so far down this yellow brick road that “positive” seems to us not only normal but normative—the way you should be.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
I was struck by how the deprivations that people experience can lead to eccentric kinds of compensation—like the hoarding syndrome of some of the poor.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
The Atlantic • The Time Tax
A cynic might conclude that preventive medicine exists to transform people into raw material for a profit-hungry medical-industrial complex.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
As Ehrenreich taught us, we turn toward the body when life feels out of control.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops,” reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.