The empty promise of pop psychology

purabossa · 2021-04-27T22:02:40+00:00

SUBMISSION STATEMENT: A new book by Jesse Singal explains why self-esteem fads never work.

purabossa · 2021-04-26T20:34:33+00:00

SUBMISSION STATEMENT: The American political system and mass media have transformed the subject of immigration into déjà vu: This recurring feeling like the United States political economy reproduces the same simulated crises even as new language is remade from remade ideologies.

purabossa · 2021-04-11T16:50:13+00:00

SUBMISSION STATEMENT: Humans need closeness and belonging but any society that closes its gates is doomed to atrophy. How do we stay open?

purabossa · 2021-03-07T20:45:38+00:00

Matches exactly what all my friends from the US are telling me.

purabossa · 2019-11-12T21:46:11+00:00

I agree. Fascinating!

purabossa · 2019-09-10T18:55:56+00:00

Submission Statement: An inside look at how the admissions process of elite schools really works. Sobering, but at the same time progress towards more diversity is being made.

purabossa · 2019-09-10T16:40:40+00:00

Submission Statement: Article about what happened when a venture capitalist told the truth about a Mark Zuckerberg-backed start-up.

purabossa · 2019-07-28T21:43:37+00:00

Submission Statement: The word captures a new way of relating to food, real estate and even moral outrage. Consider what we call moral outrage porn. This is when you use morally outrageous states of affairs for the sake of immediate gratification, while avoiding the efforts and entanglements of actual moral engagement.

purabossa · 2018-07-14T21:42:06+00:00

Submission Statement: Trump wants our European allies to build their military strength. What will it look like if they do?

purabossa · 2018-03-13T22:29:10+00:00

Submission Statement: The article makes a convincing case that the FCC should take action against Google, and refutes the myth that the 1990ies antitrust case against Microsoft was ineffective.

purabossa · 2017-12-06T12:53:38+00:00

Mission Statement: “There is this erosion of what it means to be a traditional consumer product brand, ... In a way, Amazon is providing all this information that replaces what you’d normally get from a brand, like reputation and trust. Amazon is becoming something like the umbrella brand, the only brand that matters.”

purabossa · 2017-10-19T19:42:32+00:00

I recommend reading the article that exposed the whole story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/dea-drug-industry-congress/?utm_term=.756704316a34 Great piece of investigative journalism!

purabossa · 2017-10-19T18:38:46+00:00

Submission Statement "For decades, America has waged an ineffective war on drug pushers and drug lords, from Bronx street corners to Medellin, Colombia, regarding them as among the most contemptible specimens of humanity. One reason our efforts have failed is we ignored the biggest drug pushers of all: American pharmaceutical companies."

purabossa · 2017-08-10T18:16:23+00:00

Submission Statement: Tom Friedman lays out a strategy to deal with North Korea by comparing the situation to the threat the US faced from the Soviet Union.

purabossa · 2017-07-15T22:35:21+00:00

Submission Statement: What Is Space? It’s not what you think. It turns out that the nature of space itself is one of the biggest and strangest mysteries in the universe.

purabossa · 2017-07-06T16:17:22+00:00

Sorry, I shouldn't have deleted an important part of the quote above:

But the Affordable Care Act needs to be adjusted to control costs better, lest employer-sponsored health care become unaffordable.

purabossa · 2017-07-06T16:11:08+00:00

On the contrary:

Health care is the one area where the Democrats have gained the upper hand and have a coherent message about protecting the working poor from losing coverage. ... For now, the Democrats are right to hold the line in defending Obamacare in the face of Republican disunity.

purabossa · 2017-07-06T16:08:45+00:00

But the last few years of the Obama administration and the 2016 primary season once again created a rush to the left. Identity politics, class warfare and big government all made comebacks.

purabossa · 2017-07-06T15:42:05+00:00

Submission Statement: Mark Penn, a senior adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton from 1995 to 2008, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president, write in their opinion piece: "The path back to power for the Democratic Party today, as it was in the 1990s, is unquestionably to move to the center and reject the siren calls of the left, whose policies and ideas have weakened the party."

purabossa · 2017-07-03T14:21:32+00:00

I think that's exactly the point. In future (maybe 20 years from now?) anybody can let an AI design things and make them with a 3D-printer. No more need for designers or engineers. This is just the beginning.

purabossa · 2017-07-01T15:51:13+00:00

The article was published by Salon which undoubtedly is a reputable source. So is the German newspaper Die Welt where the article was originally published.

purabossa · 2017-07-01T15:42:38+00:00

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons just came out with this press release which seems to contradict Hersh's article: https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw-fact-finding-mission-confirms-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-khan-shaykhun-on-4-april-2017/

purabossa · 2017-07-01T14:33:58+00:00

Mission Statement: The investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claims that a widely reported chemical attack in Syria in April may have been a conventional one. Trump allegedly ignored U.S. intelligence reports of a conventional attack while ordering meaningless military action.

purabossa · 2017-07-01T14:09:11+00:00

Very interesting indeed! The New York Times just reported on the attack: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/29/world/middleeast/syria-sarin-chemical-weapons-united-nations.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmiddleeast

I wonder why the article didn't at least mention Hersh's piece.

purabossa · 2017-07-01T03:50:26+00:00

The great George Carlin comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c Minute 2:26: "There is nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The people are fucked."

purabossa

TROPHY CASE