Bruce Levine
Chomsky Canceled, Eisenhower Stays: How the Left’s Cancellation Criteria Hurts Them
What sins can and cannot be forgiven? Earlier this year, the organization Americans Who Tell the Truth (AWTT) announced, “Taking Down Noam Chomsky’s Portrait,” literally canceling Noam Chomsky from its portrait gallery. This is no surprise. It is a surprise that AWTT deems Dwight Eisenhower’s CIA coup-approval sins to be forgivable, and he remains worthy […]
Chomsky Canceled, Eisenhower Stays: How the Left’s Cancellation Criteria Hurts Them
What sins can and cannot be forgiven? Earlier this year, the organization Americans Who Tell the Truth (AWTT) announced, “Taking Down Noam Chomsky’s Portrait,” literally canceling Noam Chomsky from its portrait gallery. This is no surprise. It is a surprise that AWTT deems Dwight Eisenhower’s CIA coup-approval sins to be forgivable, and he remains worthy […]
What’s Been Lost in Medicine is Shameful in Psychiatry: Reflections on Bernard Lown
For Lown, two relationship areas that are critical in heart health and recovery are: (1) the relationship between the physician and the patient; and (2) the relationships between patients with their partners, family members, and other significant people in their lives. Tragically, the current absurd reality of psychiatry is that it ignores or merely pays lip to these two relationship areas when it comes to our emotional struggles.
What’s Been Lost in Medicine is Shameful in Psychiatry: Reflections on Bernard Lown
For Lown, two relationship areas that are critical in heart health and recovery are: (1) the relationship between the physician and the patient; and (2) the relationships between patients with their partners, family members, and other significant people in their lives. Tragically, the current absurd reality of psychiatry is that it ignores or merely pays lip to these two relationship areas when it comes to our emotional struggle
On the Autistic Spectrum or a Camus Anti-Hero? Rebellion Obtuseness in Psychiatry
n contrast to hyper-compliant mental health professionals, there are many artists, philosophers, and psychologically astute people who know that rebellion is not evidence of mental illness but a part of human nature. The novelist and philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960) in The Rebel (1951), an inquiry into revolt as an essential dimension of human beings, contrasts life-affirming rebellion with totalitarian-resulting revolution. I will return to another Camus classic, The Stranger (1942), to examine the societally unacknowledged rebellion that takes place for many individuals who psychiatry today sadly pathologizes with so-called autistic spectrum disorder.
On the Autistic Spectrum or a Camus Anti-Hero? Rebellion Obtuseness in Psychiatry
In contrast to hyper-compliant mental health professionals, there are many artists, philosophers, and psychologically astute people who know that rebellion is not evidence of mental illness but a part of human nature. The novelist and philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960) in The Rebel (1951), an inquiry into revolt as an essential dimension of human beings, contrasts life-affirming rebellion with totalitarian-resulting revolution. I will return to another Camus classic, The Stranger (1942), to examine the societally unacknowledged rebellion that takes place for many individuals who psychiatry today sadly pathologizes with so-called autistic spectrum disorder.
Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Sexual Predator Associations, and Legacy Twists
Malcolm X was far more deeply involved with a sexual predator—his superior, Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI)—than Noam Chomsky was involved with Jeffrey Epstein. However, Malcolm X’s association with Muhammad has had virtually no effect on Malcolm’s legacy, which has skyrocketed among the general public since his death.
Malcolm X, Noam Chomsky, Sexual Predator Associations, and Legacy Twists
Malcolm X was far more deeply involved with a sexual predator—his superior, Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI)—than Noam Chomsky was involved with Jeffrey Epstein. However, Malcolm X’s association with Muhammad has had virtually no effect on Malcolm’s legacy, which has skyrocketed among the general public since his death.
Surviving the Pain of an Authoritarian Demagogue Any Way We Can
Until recently, the predominant life pains that I have long seen in my psychologist day job include: abusive and neglectful parents, dysfunctional families, loveless marriages, lifelong loneliness, soul-crushing jobs, oppressive bosses, dehumanizing bureaucracies, and a variety of losses. However, the rise to power in the U.S. of an authoritarian demagogue has resulted in another major source of pain created not only by his actions but by his very being. From what I gather, many other mental health professionals are also hearing about the pains generated by him
Surviving the Pain of an Authoritarian Demagogue Any Way We Can
Until recently, the predominant life pains that I have long seen in my psychologist day job include: abusive and neglectful parents, dysfunctional families, loveless marriages, lifelong loneliness, soul-crushing jobs, oppressive bosses, dehumanizing bureaucracies, and a variety of losses. However, the rise to power in the U.S. of an authoritarian demagogue has resulted in another major source of pain created not only by his actions but by his very being. From what I gather, many other mental health professionals are also hearing about the pains generated by him.
