Thomas Szasz is an enigma. He is a trained psychiatrist who spent decades railing against psychiatry. He said that mental illness is a myth, compared involuntary psychiatric treatment to slavery, and made a case that all drugs – including psychiatric ones – should be...
Kevin Currie-Knight
Between Postmodern and Modern: Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology of Ambivalence
https://youtu.be/MlPnezRPCt8 Transcript Stasis; change. Rest; motion. Solid; liquid. These are all contrasting metaphors where one side – stasis, rest, solid – refer to a constant, and the other – change, motion, liquid – refer to movement. Each needs the other. If...
Paw Patrol Morality (For Children and Adults)
Like all parents of young children today, I’ve sat through more episodes of Paw Patrol (and similar children’s programming) than I’d like. But as a philosopher, it gives me an interesting insight into how we as a culture use stories as a way to gradually bring our...