Skye Mahdi

Viewers who spend four or more hours watching television each day hold significantly different opinions from those who spend far less time obtaining their information from the television. They believe, for example, that there is a far higher prevalence of crime, violence, alcoholism, drug abuse, and prostitution in society than is actually the case

Corporatism, aided by positive psychology, relies on several effective coercive persuasion techniques, similar to those often employed by cults, to meld workers into a “happy” collective. It sanctions interpersonal and psychological attacks and lavish praise to destabilize an individual’s sense of self and promote compliance. It uses the coercive p

I sink into my body. I start to feel itchy and agitated and annoyed. This is why I left! Because I am shame and fear wrapped in skin. I don’t even want to visit my body, much less reside here.

She steps farther into the room, hands raised like she’s trying to calm a deranged bear. It’s me. I am the deranged bear.

They both started laughing in that desperate high-pitched way people laugh when their hearts are broken.

There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter—when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.