I urge people not to hitch the wagon of trans rights to the idea of inborn, dyadic, neurological differences. Brains are extraordinarily complex and shaped by culture and experience over time. Gender identities are multiple, gender roles constantly evolving, and … Continue reading Trans Rights
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes. Via Michel Foucault. Continue reading Michel Foucault on The Intellectual
Continue reading “You must change the whole pattern at once”There are too many complaints about society having to move too fast to keep up with the machine. There is great advantage in moving fast if you move completely, if social, educational, and recreational changes keep pace. You must change the whole pattern at once and the whole group together — and the people themselves must decide to move.
Margaret Mead, 4 September 1954, Time Magazine
We’re just trying to fit the old things into the new form, instead of asking what is the new form going to do to all the assumptions we had before. Marshall McLuhan. Love a bit of McLuhan to round off the year. Continue reading Marshall McLuhan
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath. Continue reading Read All the Books
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