My take on therapy is also why I haven't joined any AC chats; I'm concerned that, at least for myself, talking has the danger of becoming performative, especially in group settings. All my life I was trained to say les bon mots et juste, good words and just. But good and just are now movable targets, and I can no longer speak only as I ought; the times demand something else. My daughter is in therapy and it's been very helpful for her. But after two or three years, isn't it repetitive, maybe even no more than an echo chamber? My girls say I am SO TMI. I try not to burden them, but do share all my joys and contentedness, and they are many despite the outside world.
I agree with Tess! Any form of eugenics is horrendous--you can simply trace its history in Pasadena, to the program that inspired Hitler's 1933 Sterilization Act. Today, the wealthy have access to CRISPR with IVF, which can simply snip out those qualities deemed undesirable and insert (outsourced?) better ones. Jennifer Douda tackles the eugenics problem in her terrifying but compelling book, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution.
The program wouldn't allow me to vote on article length, but 20-30 minutes is great!
My take on therapy is also why I haven't joined any AC chats; I'm concerned that, at least for myself, talking has the danger of becoming performative, especially in group settings. All my life I was trained to say les bon mots et juste, good words and just. But good and just are now movable targets, and I can no longer speak only as I ought; the times demand something else. My daughter is in therapy and it's been very helpful for her. But after two or three years, isn't it repetitive, maybe even no more than an echo chamber? My girls say I am SO TMI. I try not to burden them, but do share all my joys and contentedness, and they are many despite the outside world.
This week it was the sex selection article that got me most. I don't think I like a world where this legal.
I agree with Tess! Any form of eugenics is horrendous--you can simply trace its history in Pasadena, to the program that inspired Hitler's 1933 Sterilization Act. Today, the wealthy have access to CRISPR with IVF, which can simply snip out those qualities deemed undesirable and insert (outsourced?) better ones. Jennifer Douda tackles the eugenics problem in her terrifying but compelling book, A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution.