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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

This was embarrassing because I was on a long, overseas trip during which I had talks and seminars to give. This is not to let the pharmaceutical companies, the government drug-approving bodies, and the doctors who write the scripts without thinking off the hook. It happened again three months later.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

Yes, I’m sure even Plato suffered such disinterest on the part of his students, which would most likely explain the antics of his pupil, Diogenes, who ran into Plato’s seminar with a plucked chicken crying: Behold! What is a teacher to make of such foolishness, or of such contempt for learning? Historically, the treatment would be discipline.