“This odd hell that childhood is, where you can be going through something in very close proximity to your parents, and they still can’t help you. You still can’t really tell anyone about it. It’s obsessed me, not just him, but generally that problem of childhood.”
– Graham Linehan, This American Life Episode 314.
Continue reading →[Another forgotten post from the draft folder from Sep 2010]
This was an insight that Howard Bloom’s Conformity Enforcers and Stephen Pressfield’s concept of The Resistance are linked, or at least serve the same ends.
[Continuing the series where I post the backlog from my drafts folder. This one is from June 2009 ]
David Sloan Wilson & Howard Bloom both argue cults can be good including Scientology.
“A religion that makes Hollywood starts sober up and send thank you notes cannot be all that bad”
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom
David Sloan Wilson (Darwin’s Cathedral) – http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-07-04.html