Rat Park
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On isolation.
When a government tortures people on *your* behalf, do you share the blame? If so, what should you do?
addiction, ADX, Bruce Alexander, cetacean communication, confinement, constitutional rights, deprivation tank, dolphin, dolphin communication, dolphin hand job, drug abuse, false confessions, Harry Harlow, Hell is a Very Small Place, innocent until proven guilty, isolation tank, Jeanne Theoharis, Jesse Wilson, John C. Lilly, Juan Mendez, laboratory animals, LSD, Margaret Howe, memory, morphine, opiates, Rat Park, Ray McGovern, Richard Feynman, sensory deprivation, social isolation, solitary, solitary confinement, solitary watch, stimulus deprivation, sunlight, supermax, Syed Fahad Hashmi, teaching dolphins to talk, terrorism, torture, Torture of a Student, Voices from Solitary Confinement
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On Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian.’
Plants photosynthesize. Humans kill to eat. But I still think humans are pretty great.
anorexia, Being a Beast, biology isn’t destiny, bulimia, Charles Foster, chlorophyll habit, empathy, ethical eating, ethics of eating, Fiona Apple, Han Kang, humans evolved to be omnivorous, Naomi Wolf, Paper Bag, Queer, Rat Park, Stuart McMillen, The Beauty Myth, The Vegetarian, turning into a plant, vegan, veganism, why are more women than men vegetarian, William Burroughs, Yi Sang
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