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After September 11, the politics of democracy was replaced by grief management; people may grieve together but should not be stupid together

Drawn from what Susan Sontag said

SubjectsPsychotherapypolitics
What these subjects mean

Psychotherapy Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.

politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

What Susan Sontag actually said

  1. Susan Sontag American writer and critic (1933 to 2004)
    Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together.

    Where this was said

    ↗Tuesday, and After (The New Yorker, Talk of the Town, her contribution)newyorker.com

    16 Sept 2001

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