Thus do I link to some­thing that rein­forces things pre­vi­ously read and said. Scott Eric Kauf­man on psychoanalysis.

Be espe­cially care­ful to read the dynam­ics of the com­ments there. This ten­sion, this wrestling with unre­solved issues—what can it mean?

Go read this Gary Jones piece on the future evo­lu­tion of smart nonexperts.

My Lords, I have sub­mit­ted to you, with the free­dom and truth which I think my duty, my sen­ti­ments on your present awful sit­u­a­tion. I have laid before you the ruin of your power, the dis­grace of your rep­u­ta­tion, the pol­lu­tion of your dis­ci­pline, the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of your morals, the com­pli­ca­tion of calami­ties, for­eign and domes­tic, that over­whelm your sink­ing coun­try. Your dear­est inter­ests, your own lib­er­ties, the Con­sti­tu­tion itself tot­ters to the foun­da­tion. All this dis­grace­ful dan­ger, this mul­ti­tude of mis­ery, is the mon­strous off­spring of this unnat­ural war. We have been deceived and deluded too long. Let us now stop short. This is the crisis—the only cri­sis of time and sit­u­a­tion, to give us a pos­si­bil­ity of escape from the fatal effects of our delu­sions. But if, in an obsti­nate and infat­u­ated per­se­ver­ance in folly, we slav­ishly echo the peremp­tory words this day pre­sented to us, noth­ing can save this devoted coun­try from com­plete and final ruin. We madly rush into mul­ti­plied mis­eries, and “con­fu­sion worse confounded.”

Lord Chatham, 1777