There is an odd estrangement from one’s sense of an agentic self… and consequently one’s possibilities for solving a problem.”

—Nancy McWilliams (Diagnosis and Its Discontents: Reflections on Our Current Dilemma, 2021)

I will send you some. What do you use?

Couldn’t agree more it’s here now. From an outside USA perspective, and outside this platform it’s still obvious, and staggeringly alarming.
Media I see and read recognizes 1/2+ the population swept up in a tsunami of idiocy and greed. Hope for USA midterms & pray some Republicans grow a spine.

In retrospect possibly all have a ‘marker’
At what age, event, for you, did young adulthood end and adulthood (old/maturity) begin?

Nope!

Suggest ‘Gender without Identity’ Saketopoulou & Pelligrini, 2024 if you haven’t read it.

State to finish in excerpts would be great. Thanks for sharing!

Perhaps economics is only capitalism because your lens highlights patriarchy, systemic inequality and embedded misogyny.
Some who protest actively and effectively against the real systemic injustices practice, enjoy (and profit from) misandry. Query is it the system they contest, or who’s on ‘top’?

I suppose some professors have all the weaknesses—inc. ego issues and competitiveness—of other human beings

The published academic legal work you’ve authored/ co-authored that I’ve read are imho persuasive, solidly argued, but your career is focused elsewhere. Activism & creative writing?