Violent Acres

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, “Personal Conduct,” The Second Sin, 1973
Remember when the hippy dippy girl with the dreads was the only one dashing off to Indonesia to ‘find herself?’ [...]

In the course of a conversation, I am a particularly tolerant individual. I can listen to bad analogies, propaganda, religious hysteria, pointless stories, straw man arguments, faulty thinking and outright bullshit all with the greatest of ease. However, there is one thing I absolutely refuse to listen to under any circumstance and that is an [...]