Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Saturday, December 7, 2019
To many modern ears this must sound like an absurdity, redolent of a dictatorship. Paradoxically, I want to suggest that that absolute obedience to a higher power outside of ourselves can be the path to freedom. Nigel Pocock What kind of ‘freedom’ are we are talking about? To […]
In an otherwise excellent book, Abbot Christopher Jamison encourages his readers to seek their “true self”“. Is this sheer mysticism, rooted in romantic fantasy? Nigel Pocock Do people really have a “true self” lurking deeply within? Waiting to be found, if only we knew how? Even if this […]
Adolf Eichmann was a model of sparkling mental health, from a Nazi perspective. He did what any mature and sensible person would have done, to remove dangerous vermin that were destroying the health of the nation. Nigel Pocock Chemical therapies were applied to Soviet dissidents, who were self-evidently ill if […]
Do people really love themselves? Some writers think that people do not love themselves, saying that true self-love, in the sense of self-acceptance, is learned, often very painfully so. I agree. Nigel Pocock Part of the difficulty is that people confuse self-esteem and self-love. I concur, with Scott […]
This looks like a highly provocative and paradoxical title, and so it is. What we present here is an outworking of Ofer Zur’s article (2006), The Pathology of Victimhood. Nigel Pocock Zur argues that the tendency to ignore the psychology of victims arises from a fear of […]
