A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread
A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread.
Posts about “defense mechanisms”
Selected articles, stories, and notes. Total entries: 4.
Nationalism and Trust
Nationalism is an emergency mechanism for restoring trust within a narrow circle when general trust has been destroyed.
Cynicism and Romanticism
The Decorator
At first, we are architects. We are born a wild, unmapped landscape. Somewhere lies a swamp of secret wants, somewhere cliffs of irrational fear, somewhere clearings of pure, causeless joy. Very early on, though, an inner perfectionist wakes up with a master plan for the build-out. He isn’t a tyrant. He’s a decorator. He undertakes the...