“Americans revel in their victimhood…Even if they were not fortunate enough to experience real abuse as a child…many Americans reconstruct the past in especially negative ways…they exaggerate childhood disappointments to create a story”
From the book The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By
H/T: https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1418221794343878662
The following is taken from a Twitter thread by user @G_S_Bhogal. These are fairly good concepts to grasp and know to better understand
The following is a Twitter thread by Bjorn Lomberg. He is a Danish political scientist and president of the thinktank Copenhagen Consensus
Below, I would like to share one of the most visual and brutal paragraphs in the book The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander