This Week in Reaction

The Last Psychiatrist is at his manic-depressive best in a takedown of selling to women’s insecurities by pretending to heal them:

But the thing to notice here is not that this [therapeutic] thinking has failed but that this thinking has BOTH failed AND she thinks it has worked amazingly well for everything else EXCEPT her perception of her physical appearance, her self-esteem; only in that one single area does she “have more work to do on myself.” If you ask her about her capacity for empathy or her social/political beliefs or her “values”– those aren’t evolving, those are evolved, they are unassailable. “I have a lot of love to give.” How do you know?

Radish Magazine, proving once again that it’s always “Friday” somewhere in the world, unearths the prophetic genius of Ta-Nehisi Coates Lothrop Stoddard.

Will S. at Patriactionary goes to the wrong side of the virtual tracks so you don’t have to. Actually FarmersOnly.com doesn’t sound too bad. Or does it? </ew>

We now know there are infinitely many prime gaps shorter than 70 million. This makes it a reasonable (but not yet sure) bet that there are infinitely many twin primes. But you already knew that. (via Sonic)

As always, Jim Donald nails it:

If you believe that game works then:

1. You are darkly enlightened, since you believe at least one forbidden truth about human nature.
2. You should logically conclude that women should never have been emancipated and never given the vote, thus logically, you should be reactionary.

In case you still think America isn’t an empire of truly global reach, Isegoria pulls back the curtain on BRAC: the largest NGO in the world, says The Grey Lady, “although you’ve probably never heard of it.” How about that?

That’s it for now… til next “week”… The Reactivity Place, Over and Out.