Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I had to do some digging for that Taylor Swift NYU question and... It's something! Seems like an inconsequential lyric to have students respond to in the grand scheme of her output, and especially in comparison to the other choices.
I concur that the van der Kolk piece is excellent. Carr uses irony very deftly, I thought, it order to critique without being completely unsympathetic to the movement and its adherents. I feel like more books should be sold in pairs. 'The Body Keeps the Score' could be sold alongside Kristin Dombek's excellent 'The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism' for instance to temper the reader's temptation to invest in an overly simplistic, self-mythologising narrative...
On the death of the oceans, certainly plastic garbage primarily from Asia is an upsetting global problem. And over-fishing... again, primarily from Asia... is a problem. However, most sea life is biologically designed for massive reproduction in a short time. Stop fishing for just 2-3 years and the environmental alarmists would be harping about massive sealife death from overpopulation.
Trauma is real but isn't conscious. It really needs to be seen from the outside, analyzing the words and actions of an individual. If someone claims trauma, they are using cognition and likely claiming something that was not there.
The overuse of "trauma" by the safetyists is bad and denigrating those who experienced real trauma.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I had to do some digging for that Taylor Swift NYU question and... It's something! Seems like an inconsequential lyric to have students respond to in the grand scheme of her output, and especially in comparison to the other choices.
https://meet.nyu.edu/advice/application-tips/announcing-the-2023-2024-common-application-for-nyu/
I concur that the van der Kolk piece is excellent. Carr uses irony very deftly, I thought, it order to critique without being completely unsympathetic to the movement and its adherents. I feel like more books should be sold in pairs. 'The Body Keeps the Score' could be sold alongside Kristin Dombek's excellent 'The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism' for instance to temper the reader's temptation to invest in an overly simplistic, self-mythologising narrative...
The old SSC review of The Body Keeps The Score is also worth reading: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/12/book-review-the-body-keeps-the-score/ not least because the author is also a psychiatrist.
On the death of the oceans, certainly plastic garbage primarily from Asia is an upsetting global problem. And over-fishing... again, primarily from Asia... is a problem. However, most sea life is biologically designed for massive reproduction in a short time. Stop fishing for just 2-3 years and the environmental alarmists would be harping about massive sealife death from overpopulation.
Just a thanks to Freddie for the thoughtful and entertaining writing.
Trauma is real but isn't conscious. It really needs to be seen from the outside, analyzing the words and actions of an individual. If someone claims trauma, they are using cognition and likely claiming something that was not there.
The overuse of "trauma" by the safetyists is bad and denigrating those who experienced real trauma.
I wonder how invalidated (ugh) I'll feel by the pieces on The Body Keeps the Score, considering how much I gained from this book.