"In what may be an apocryphal story, Mae West, meeting Mailer at a party, said, “Oh, you’re the guy who can’t spell ‘fuck’!"
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"Many people will tell you that having many friends, a fortune or freedom is essential to happiness, but Mr. Kagan believes they are wrong. “A fundamental requirement for feelings of serenity and satisfaction,” Mr. Kagan says, is “commitment to a few unquestioned ethical beliefs” and the confidence that one lives in a community and country that promote justice and fair play. “Even four-year-olds have a tantrum,” he notes, “if a parent violates their sense of fairness.” His diagnosis of the “storm of hostility” felt by Americans on the right and left, and the depression and anomie among so many young people, is that this essential requirement has been frustrated by the bleak events of the past decades. War, corruption, the housing bubble and the financial crisis, not to mention the fact that so many of those responsible have not been held unaccountable, have eroded optimism, pride and the fundamental need to believe the world is fair. In the third and fourth essays, “Who Is Mentally Ill?” and “Helping the Mentally Ill,” Mr. Kagan turns to the intransigent problems of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is going ungently into its fifth edition, accompanied by a cacophony of complaints from inside and outside the psychiatric establishment. The DSM “regards every intense bout of sadness or worry, no matter what their origin, as a possible sign of mental disorder,” Mr. Kagan laments. But “most of these illness categories are analogous to complaints of headaches or cramps. Physicians can decide on the best treatment for a headache only after they have determined its cause. The symptom alone is an insufficient guide."
"In this sense, artificial-life researchers are as body-loathing as any medieval theologian. They seek to separate the “principles” of life and sentience—the spirit—from the dirty muck it sprang from."
Programming the post-human: Computer science redefines “life”—By Ellen Ullman (Harper’s Magazine)
"The transaction has been described as “the worst in history”."
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