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[content note: discussions of abuse, harassment, and stalking] I. Sarah Schulman’s Conflict Is Not Abuse is controversial in queer and leftist circles. Some see it as a courageous book which tells the truth about toxic victimhood dynamics and the culture of disposability in woke communities. Others see it as an abuse apologist screed which makes people think it’s progressive to shrug off the missing stairs predating on people who trusted the only place they thought was safe from societal oppression.

There’s no doubt that there are several therapy techniques many of us are familiar with and there are some we aren’t. I can bet that many of us are conversant with cognitive behavioral therapy even those who aren’t therapist know this. However, there are several other techniques that we may have experienced and not know or we don’t even know about at all. One of such is The Confrontation or Attack Therapy technique.

The humanities offers us a treasure trove of wisdom and insight. Ironically, that wisdom is sometimes obscured or falsely represented by pithy “mic-drop” quotation memes carelessly circulated in social media exchanges and the wider popular culture. Like Mark Twain and Albert Einstein, Confucius is one of the more frequent victims of erroneous quote attributions. Here is a prominent example of a meme featuring the quote, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves,” currently being shared online.

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In the 2010s, there was a long-running debate among nerds about how exactly the government should address the problem of chronically weak spending, which was holding back recovery and depressing both inflation and employment.  Among the participants in this debate was a camp of monetary purists. They argued, first, that central banks had all the tools that they needed to get the economy growing sufficiently fast, even though the main policy rate available to central banks—the overnight interest rate—had in most countries been cut to near zero.

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The I Ching—which translates to “Book of Changes,” or “Bible of Changes,” is one of the foundational texts of Eastern philosophy. It was first written down circa 1000 B.C., though its oral tradition dates back to 3000 B.C. Built in the ancient binary code of “yin” (the feminine) and “yang” (the masculine), it’s a series of 64 hexagrams, which can be consulted as a system of divination. You ask the I Ching a well-formed question, toss coins, record the results, and then contemplate the wisdom offered by its corresponding symbols.

I spent the end of 2021 doing something I always wanted to try: I swam with sharks. Somehow, I convinced the rest of my family to join me too. If you had to guess, how long do you think it’d take for sharks to show up after chum is thrown into the water? My mother thought it would take 2 minutes, my father said 1 minute, my brothers said 45 seconds and 1.

I can’t help it. I have a compulsion. If I see the same mistake enough times, I have to write a helpful explainer. And this one’s graced both my inbox and papers I’ve read or refereed enough times that it definitely qualifies. At the end of all of this, I’ll have a nice tidy link to send people the next time I get an email titled “Help with my DID model?