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It’s not that people don’t recognize that something is seriously broken. But when you combine the effects of manufactured ambiguity with the temptations of ignoring the horrors completely and instead basking in the comfort of a life of entertainment and consumption, the result is revolutionary paralysis.

The point is: moral standing is a big deal in China...and their framing helps preserve the afflicted individual's moral legitimacy. Rather than being perceived as something foreign, defective, or alien, the patient is reframed as someone whose mind is operating in excess. Their neurotic cognition is simply unable to find a state of contentment... See more

This was a specific and focused effort on getting white women out of brothels, and because of this, we still see racial divisions along the prostituted class today. Prostitution is a continuation of chattel slavery, it is the white man ensuring that Black Women remain poor, remain sexually available, remain for sale.

Kony 2012 was a masterclass in branding. From the eye-catching posters to the bumping campaign soundtrack, all of it was formulated to make people feel powerful. And with the help of YouTube and Facebook, the movement did make Kony famous, practically overnight. But that is just about all the campaign actually achieved. With no long-term strategy... See more

I had the thought a little while ago that the design of the major social media platforms not only encourage schizophrenic symptoms in individual users, particularly through features like algorithms showing one more content like that which they have already seen or engaged with, but through the very shape of the platforms being that which resembles... See more

At Ionia State Hospital in Michigan—once a psychiatric institution, now a prison—Black men involved in the civil rights movement were disproportionately labeled schizophrenic, their political rage reframed as psychiatric pathology. Why? Because in 1968, the DSM-II redefined schizophrenia, adding “hostility” and “aggression” as symptoms. Suddenly,... See more

today, that light shines to illuminate a truth we’ve been avoiding for a while: with every great artist we eulogise, we grow closer to a new dark age. we are losing libraries of knowledge. the cemeteries are filling up with the last of our great thinkers. it seems there is no one left to replace them. who should we follow now? tiktokers who rely on... See more