Category: The Archive

My algorithm knows me better than I sometimes know myself. Lately, it has been serving me a steady diet of introvert quotes: more like a digital nudge toward self-acceptance. The most resonant was one misattributed to Jane Austen: “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy, but like everybody else, it must be…

Naturally, one would expect and believe that childhood and its accompanying attributes are those of tenderness, innocence, and obedience. These attributes must then, by the guardians of the child, be cultivated in ways that benefit both the growing child and society at large. But can we truly say that is the case today? We cannot…