Ashley Frawley
@ashleyafrawley.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Compact Magazine • Senior Research Fellow, MCC Brussels • Sociologist, Uni Kent • Author, most recently, of Significant Emotions (Bloomsbury, 2024)
"Teach mindfulness! Mental health! Wellbeing! We'll prevent problems before they start!"
When will we learn that we are creating the problems we're pretending to solve?
Cultivating excessive self-attention is good for no one, least of all kids.
When will we learn that we are creating the problems we're pretending to solve?
Cultivating excessive self-attention is good for no one, least of all kids.
September 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
"Teach mindfulness! Mental health! Wellbeing! We'll prevent problems before they start!"
When will we learn that we are creating the problems we're pretending to solve?
Cultivating excessive self-attention is good for no one, least of all kids.
When will we learn that we are creating the problems we're pretending to solve?
Cultivating excessive self-attention is good for no one, least of all kids.
I remember someone on the radio confidently proclaiming that govts etc had figured out how to avoid economic crises and that we'd never see another one.
That was in 2007.
www.compactmag.com/article/ever...
That was in 2007.
www.compactmag.com/article/ever...
May 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I remember someone on the radio confidently proclaiming that govts etc had figured out how to avoid economic crises and that we'd never see another one.
That was in 2007.
www.compactmag.com/article/ever...
That was in 2007.
www.compactmag.com/article/ever...
"Unregulated suicides"
This is very revealing: It isn't about freedom.
It is about making death something "regulated", scheduled, and controlled.
As I explain here:
brussels.mcc.hu/publication/...
This is very revealing: It isn't about freedom.
It is about making death something "regulated", scheduled, and controlled.
As I explain here:
brussels.mcc.hu/publication/...
May 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Unregulated suicides"
This is very revealing: It isn't about freedom.
It is about making death something "regulated", scheduled, and controlled.
As I explain here:
brussels.mcc.hu/publication/...
This is very revealing: It isn't about freedom.
It is about making death something "regulated", scheduled, and controlled.
As I explain here:
brussels.mcc.hu/publication/...