When everybody loves you, ah son
that's just about as funky as you can be.

Thanks, friend. Have many connections on the other app, but it’s changed for the worse over there so we’ll see—may spend more time here.

Excited to read.

There are countless political issues that aren’t well suited to there being a shiny balanced middle ground. /2

I think there can be a conflation of centrism with being balanced or inhabiting the ‘depressive position’ sometimes without putting in the work and sorting out one’s thoughts & moral compass on a given issue. /1

Np!

Was nervous but Chapman pulled it off.

I think these dynamics become more deeply problematic with marginalized patients. The powerful therapist, perched high atop their place of privilege and knowing, bestows wisdom upon the simple fool unable to educated themself. As Gherovici often repeats, even the poor can afford an unconscious.

And their ‘countertransference’ for a lack of better term in how they deal with idealization, competition, dissent, etc.

Yeah, think leadership plays a big part in setting norms and group dynamics.

Yes, think there’s some agreement to group norms, for sure. Was trying to capture a kind of harsher restraint that emerges in some groups that are overly inhibiting.

Damn, rough.

Smog, fires, all of the above?

Don’t know! Sorry.

Jealous.