HeyJaredFor Normal People
Reader-funded. Anti-disciplinary. Published & unpublished analysis for normal people. Recently: The ABC, AUS, AFR, SBS, AGE, SMH. Joshua Dabelstein. Australia.
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Why NAZA Feels So Good (opens the original)
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What is wokeism? (opens the original)
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We’ve been thinking about wokeism all wrong.The woke phenomenon looks like a collection of political reactions and priorities. But at its core, it’s a psychological phenomenon merely manifesting superficially as a morally charged politic.A tantrum presenting as the politics of conscientious absolutism. A tyrannical, tawdry tussel not with the world, but with one’s own impotence.We too often mistake these battered and bruised souls for serious interlocutors. They are not, and by mistaking pain fo
Ed Sheeran has done something wrong (opens the original)
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Same note as usual: responding to someone’s article with a slightly different take is not the same thing as saying that their house ought to be burned down. My response to O’Neill, below, is the kind of normal response that takes place in a conversation between two people who care about the same stuff.You would do well to buy a copy of Brendan O’Neill’s latest book, A Heretic’s Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable.<figu
When the Barrow Tips (opens the original)
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Medical HistoryI spent my first couple of years in construction the way we all do: straddled between jobs nobody else wants to do and wondering how the other lizards on site manage to go full weeks without drinking water.In a time that still feels like yesterday, I ran wheelbarrows from concrete mixers to formwork. Down driveways and up loose stone paths, from concrete mixers to hard-to-reach, boxed-in sub-base. I eventually managed to wrangle a couple of half-days a week, which allowed me to ge
No, We Don’t Need More Holocaust Education. (opens the original)
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The announced increased funding for Holocaust education in Australia is not what we need.Holocaust education is crucial. But diverting resources to more of it is a very expensive way to avoid confronting antizionism.A considerably more appropriate response to the post October 7 global explosion in antizionism may be to have every high school student watch Fauda, season 5, episodes 7 & 8.This would save millions of dollars—money better spent on responding to this century’s Jew-hunt.I mean this si
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