— Charles Bukowski (via almcqueen)
“Gaining acceptance into graduate school or medical school and achieving a PhD or MD and becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist means jumping through many hoops, all of which require much behavioral and attentional compliance to authorities, even to those authorities that one lacks respect for. The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many anti-authoritarians. Having steered the higher-education terrain for a decade of my life, I know that degrees and credentials are primarily badges of compliance. Those with extended schooling have lived for many years in a world where one routinely conforms to the demands of authorities. Thus for many MDs and PhDs, people different from them who reject this attentional and behavioral compliance appear to be from another world—a diagnosable one.
I have found that most psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals are not only extraordinarily compliant with authorities but also unaware of the magnitude of their obedience. And it also has become clear to me that the anti-authoritarianism of their patients creates enormous anxiety for these professionals, and their anxiety fuels diagnoses and treatments.” (via)
Cathedral made from 55,000 LED lights by Luminarie De Cagna
Photo by Stijn Coppens
one piece at a time - paper car by Jonathan Brand | photos by Laura DeSantis-Olsson.
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“Touch it, dude!”— Barack Obama, instructing a 5-year-old to touch his hair. The child had asked “if my hair is just like yours.”
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“It is hard to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed.”— House Speaker John Boehner on the Republican caucus.
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