Brian Robinson
@brian-robinsonbsky
Retired NHS psychiatrist
There might be something (in Jungian terms) 'Archetypal' about Farridge, resonating in public consciousness -- e.g. the 'Trickster'. Image from Reddit.
In anticipation of various kinds of response to my earlier post about what Clive wrote, I jotted down a few points as attached below. I'm going to resist any temptation to get into any back-and-forth on it. This is what I think now, it may well change. Others are free to take or leave it.
Great piece of investigative journalism. I do often wonder if universities are becoming historical anachronisms now. So many, UK & USA, seem to have lost their way intellectually. The *form* of intellectual enquiry is still there but the content is all propaganda & no evidence in many disciplines.
1<= for page 1 of BMJ: ANTISEMITISM: DOCTORS DEMAND NHS DROPS CONTENTIOUS DEFINITION AND CALL FOR “PAUSE” OF MANN REVIEW tinyurl.com/54ft8rxm
BMJ: ANTISEMITISM: DOCTORS DEMAND NHS DROPS CONTENTIOUS DEFINITION AND CALL FOR “PAUSE” OF MANN REVIEW =>2 for page 2 tinyurl.com/54ft8rxm
1<= mechanisms or even through idealising what when younger they'd have deemed their worst selves. They'll rationalise their choices & say events meant they had no other. But this is *a Labour government* (you have to hear this in Neil Kinnock's voice, as attached)
Serious arguments have been made as to why theoretically (EO Wilson) & empirically (Bryan Magee) Socialism doesn't / hasn't worked for humans -- and =>2
1<= Part 1 of Lumo's summary of George Marshall's "Don't Even Think About It" Part 2 below =>3
Summary by Proton's Lumo of 2014 book by George Marshall, Don't Even Think About It — Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall (2014) Lumo is at https: //proton . me/lumo =>2
1<=BMJ_Why German doctors are being prepped for war part #2
[????]“Full body ultrasound”—AI firm Midjourney pivots from image generation to launch rival health scans[????]
The G is ridiculous exasperating mendacious in its self promotion now - I stopped my subscription cos it no longer does what it claims, yourself being an honourable exception. The app is now simply insulting see graphic. I’ll read you on the Archive!
3<= See also =>5 about a downloadable book on the whole enterprise by one of the two teenage film-makers.
2<= Bsky limits I've taken out from the original the brief original cuts showing the injured British partisan fighter the Fletchers are sheltering. =>4
1<=That's what they're really about, with their cryogenics, transhumanist conceits, intergalactic (post-)human colonisation, it's not even normal symbolic immortality now, they're after the real thing. See attached, if you can get hold of a copy - fascinating book
'The whole of humankind is at the mercy of the health of the planet in the same way in which a babe-in-arms is at the mercy of the health of its mother.' -- Emmy van Deurzen, 'Everyday Mysteries: A Handbook of Existential Psychotherapy', 2nd edition, Routledge 2010
2<= disorders. New York: International Universities Press. Kohut, H. (1972). Thoughts on narcissism and narcissistic rage. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 27, 360–400.