TotD: Thomas Szasz on Language

Reli­gion and the jar­gon of the helping/hindering pro­fes­sions are com­prised large­ly of lit­er­al­ized metaphors. That is why they are the per­fect tools for legit­imiz­ing and ille­git­imiz­ing ideas, behav­iors, and per­sons. Ordi­nary lan­guage com­bines all of these qual­i­ties. It can be…

R.I.P. Madeleine L’Engle

Orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished at Ene­my of Entropy. Please leave any com­ments there. I start­ed this post on Sep­tem­ber 7, the day after the grand lady moved on to find out what’s next. I find myself cer­tain that she wasn’t afraid, that…

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