Dan Lowe

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I always value Glen O'Hara's insights, so am excited to dig into this and in no way is reading about the politics of my youth an escape from the horrendous timeline we seem to be in.

"Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples."
~Wilhelm Reich

Preordered and looking forwards to getting my copy

\Thanks Ned, will watch with interest.

The total lack of seriousness that UK elites show while facing an obvious pre-war/ grey war situation in most policy realms is atrocious. Small boats? Yeah whatever mate.

I'm heavily influenced by Wilhelm Reich and am currently in a 4 year post grad training in Reichian psychotherapy. Please feel free to get in touch or link and share my details, thank you!

bodyandbreathpsychotherapy.co.uk

Finally set myself up a website for my practice. If you are curious about starting psychotherapy, or know of anyone in a similar position, please feel free to contact me. I specialise in body-based or somatic psychotherapy, that is therapy which incorporates the body and breath

I used to quite like Tyler Cowen but I heard him recently talking about new works by Shaespeare generated by AI and found that so profoundly dumb that I've not listened to him since.

Why do I think this is the first time any of these people have looked at a painting?

Jung & the Ancestors - Sandra Easter is pretty interesting depending on your tolerance for Jung. Mine is low so I've not finished it but it's a good book.

Not read it but Martin Coleman's Communing with Spirits. Finding Soul on the Path of Orisa - Tobe Correal has 2 excellent chapters.

“The people we’re up against are traitors to this planet, and its people, and the other species who we share the earth with. And so, we think that there’s something potentially valuable about explicitly committing to here ... to saying, ‘We are the people who are going to fight for one another, and fight for the livability and habitability of this planet, of this place.’” – Astra Taylor

@astra.bsky.social on the movement we need: "I think it’s also anti-nihilistic. It’s anti-despair. It’s like, 'No, this is actually a beautiful place, and it’s worth fighting for, and other people are worth fighting for.'" truthout.org/audio/traito...

I'd ask all of you and @jcbslide.bsky.social to think about these questions:

Can we know what’s true?

Can we debate and decide fairly?

Can we hold power accountable?

If you answer "no" to those questions, then I'd argue you aren't living in a functional democracy, just a performance of one.

I'd welcome a link summarising if there's one to hand.

They could do with articulating this stuff to the wider public then, because everyone seems aware of the failures but few of this work.

Both can be true, cities can be thriving and vibrant, and attractive places to live, this pushes up rents which (in London anyway) are frankly insane. I appreciate Glen's resistance to doomerism.

Still true:
*Britain is a success story
*Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well
*Multiculturalism is popular
*Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration
*Nostalgia is increasingly weird
*Britain is incredibly safe
*Levels of social cohesion are high
Don't let them gaslight you.

Well that's because Trump has never done a single solitary thing against Russia and Russian interests.

How does this person know "precisely" the information they need in the first place? What about chance, inspiration, serendipity? What an asshat.

I'm going to give a short talk on Wilhelm Reich at the Magick Without Tears pub moot, The Fitzroy Tavern, Charlotte Street on Thursday the 19th (next Thurs), pls come if yr around, reskeets appreciated.

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

That has the formatting to suggest a scientific paper and an abstract but that is very much not what it is

I wanted to be a therapist since I was probably 20 and am now doing it, 30 years later so that counts I think?

Islamaphobia is a deep part of our history, going back to the Crusades.

I'm a bit disappointed in the blandness of Labour's offering here. Cummings gave us madness, blogs, book lists and Bismarck. McSweeny is far too dull in comparison.

Being an adult is basically a series of ever deepening betrayals of that 12 year old.

Let's just indulge this for one second - if this were true, why wd the sex workers involved carry out a bad arson attack, rather than idk, going to the press?

Fair! I'd forgotten about him. Felt sorry for the girls though.

I thought the British song was actually pretty good and wondered if I could see our post-Brexit relationships mirrored in that vote.