Sublime

The cold divisive logic of the RCO impoverishes us, all of us, and brings us closer to that primitive state that the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes called “the war of every man against every man.”

The patient knows best. Some Gestalt therapists attribute to the patient full responsibility, full power, to make themselves sick or well, but then take on themselves the decision to push the patient past their defenses. It seems to me that if patients are so capable that they are responsible for themselves (their lives, their pathology, their

The rise of negative partisanship in the American electorate appears to be part of a vicious cycle of mutually reinforcing elite and mass behavior.

That is the greatest danger that fear poses: not panic amid disorder, but cooperation with an order that we ought to find unspeakable—one that is actually poised to bring about our own extinction.