America’s back on the couch. We open with the shutdown-as-family-drama: unpaid essential workers, trust leaking out “in buckets,” and a Congress that swapped governing for purity tests and cable hits. It isn’t politics; it’s low differentiation with triangulation and emotional cutoffs, and the kids (us) feel it first. Then the fun-house mirror: an AI-crowned digital king flinging sludge* on critics while a chunk of the country flirts with strongman fantasies. That isn’t satire; it’s validatio...
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America’s back on the couch. We open with the shutdown-as-family-drama: unpaid essential workers, trust leaking out “in buckets,” and a Congress that swapped governing for purity tests and cable hits. It isn’t politics; it’s low differentiation with triangulation and emotional cutoffs, and the kids (us) feel it first. Then the fun-house mirror: an AI-crowned digital king flinging sludge* on critics while a chunk of the country flirts with strongman fantasies. That isn’t satire; it’s validatio...
The Power and Weight of Projection... And Some Other Stuff
Shrink The Nation
58 minutes
3 months ago
The Power and Weight of Projection... And Some Other Stuff
Pour a glass of bourbon and settle in: Shrink the Nation is back with a clinical (and irreverent) deep-dive into projection—how we heap our hopes, fears, and disappointments onto presidents, partners, and pretty much anyone who’ll stand still long enough. Dr. David and Rob break down the classic Freudian defense (yes, with jokes about the “coked mind of Sigmund Freud”) and show how projection warps both politics and relationships. Why do Americans keep falling in love with presidential candid...
Shrink The Nation
America’s back on the couch. We open with the shutdown-as-family-drama: unpaid essential workers, trust leaking out “in buckets,” and a Congress that swapped governing for purity tests and cable hits. It isn’t politics; it’s low differentiation with triangulation and emotional cutoffs, and the kids (us) feel it first. Then the fun-house mirror: an AI-crowned digital king flinging sludge* on critics while a chunk of the country flirts with strongman fantasies. That isn’t satire; it’s validatio...
