Bradley McDevitt
@soupbone
Archetypal Scholar, Leadership Development Coach, Theater Nerd, Clown
Bradley McDevitt
thearchetype.substack.com
Paine rejected the idea that any man could be born to rule others, and he ridiculed the idea that an island should try to govern a continent. “Where…is the King of America?” Paine asked in Common Sense. “I’ll tell you Friend…so far as we approve of monarchy…in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free count... See more
the current epidemic of attention disorders is being exacerbated by each of us being expected to do the work of an entire community.
So what is Loper Bright actually about?
Loper Bright overrules a Reagan-era Supreme Court decision known as Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council (1984), which held that when a federal statute delegating policymaking authority to an agency is ambiguous, courts typically should defer to the agency’s reading of that statute rather than trying ... See more
Loper Bright overrules a Reagan-era Supreme Court decision known as Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council (1984), which held that when a federal statute delegating policymaking authority to an agency is ambiguous, courts typically should defer to the agency’s reading of that statute rather than trying ... See more
1 did not intend for this to become a politically charged space, but WTF!?!
In infants, the chief causes of outrageous behavior — impulsivity, grandiosity, attention-seeking, and a sense of entitlement — are considered normal, but in adults they’re key symptoms of the “cluster-B” personality disorders. All four such disorders — narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial and borderline — are characterized by overemotionality and ... See more
Gurwinder • The Rise of Neotoddlerism
Jung proposed to view Tarot as a direct path to our subconscious. A way to penetrate our deepest thoughts, to self-explore our place in the world and make sense of our own lives.
Theater & Other Productive Rituals
Friend speaks my mind.
”People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”
— Bertrand Russell
Some things just take time. If you want to be a high performance athlete or chess grandmaster or concert pianist, you don’t look for short cuts. A humanities education is not much different.
“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.”
-Rainier Marie Rilke
Fifty-four percent of American adults say they or a family member have experienced a gun incident.
I have no analogue for this experience. My god. Madness.