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Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 hour ago

Shaming Someone Isn't the Same as Holding Them Accountable

Shaming asserts superiority, silences dissent, and often backfires, perpetuating social control and distorting moral understanding.
Books
fromStreetsblog
3 months ago

Book Excerpt Special: Jonathan Lethem's 'Program's Progress' - Streetsblog USA

A Different Kind of Tension contains surreal short stories blending class struggle, car-culture autocracy, perception-altering drugs, and dislocating, time-altering sexual experiences.
fromVulture
4 months ago

Pluribus Series-Premiere Recap: They Live

In the 1988 John Carpenter classic They Live, aliens have invaded the country without anyone knowing it - or, at least, without anyone of actual power and importance knowing. Then one day, a drifter in Los Angeles, played by the wrestler Roddy Piper, picks up a stray pair of sunglasses, puts them on, and sees the world as it truly is.
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Books
fromOpen Culture
4 months ago

Aldous Huxley to George Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949)

Aldous Huxley praised Nineteen Eighty-Four but maintained that a pleasure-based, consumerist totalitarianism like Brave New World was the more likely future than brutal oppression.
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