Political change in an era of massive psychic damage

There are lots of opportunities for misunderstandings these days. This is bad because online discussions — which are way more important than real-life discussions because they happen separate from the totalitarian self-censorship regime that’s taken hold in America — are dominated by nonproductive personality feuds where misunderstandings (intentional or otherwise) serve as the primary source of ammunition.

I’m not an academic. I don’t have any kind of graduate or professional education other than one semester of a never-completed film studies MA (an expensive but fortunately brief mistake) and auditing a single job-related course at UC Berkeley (it was fun, TBH). Nothing I write is intended to be cited in a book or anything like that, although I try to make my writing as accurate

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