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Hello. My name is Michael Dewan-Herrick. I am a psychotherapist and a life coach with over 40 years experience, currently in private practice in London. It is my passion and mission to offer ideas, tools, practices and strategies that will support and challenge you toward creating the life you truly want.
Currently I am working on a series of videos under the title "Life Telos as First Principle", where I talk about purpose, values, and meaning and how they can either be aligned or misaligned with the basic requirements of life. I have another playlist titled "Questioning Woke Psychotherapy", where I talk about the impact of critical sociail justice ideology (aka the "woke") on psychotherapy and our individual and collective wellbeing.
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Hello Everyone. I want to thank you for watching my videos and subscribing to my channel. Because of you, as of this week I have met the criteria for monetization. Yay! I have managed to put out a video a week for the past 19 months and plan to carry on that way. Thank you for your support and your comments!
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Hello Everybody. Thanks to all of you for helping me reach my first goal of having 1,000 subscribers! I was getting close and my last video got a great response- 4,000 views and 120 new subscribers (so far). A warm welcome to new subscribers. Now I just need to get sufficient viewing hours to become monetized. That's not why I'm doing this, but it would help me to continue. And thanks to those who made comments. I will read them all and respond to as many as I can. May you all have a fruitful 2025! Thanks again!
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A shout out to all of my subscribers... Thank you for subscribing to my channel! And a warm welcome to new subscribers. I am inching my way to the 1,000 subscribers mark and you have all helped me get this far. Also, tomorrow I will post my follow-up video to Challenging the Dysfunctional Narrative of the Woke. This one is titled Why Multiculturalism Without a Meta-Narrative is a Disaster. I hope you will check it out. Thanks again!
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Thoughts in advance of the election:
I am increasingly aware that no matter how hard I work at making a solid argument for anything, there is always some way that it could be taken apart. There is some other contrary and credible way to look at things. Some loose thread that could be pulled to unravel the whole damn sweater. Usually, I could pull it myself. (Spoiler: get ready for some mixed metaphors.)
What is also becoming even clearer to me than it has already been for years, is that this is the inherent nature of every argument. It's not just MY incompetence. It doesn’t matter how learned or esteemed the one putting it forward, every argument or opinion falls into the shark-infested waters where it is ripped to shreds by gnosoclasts (destroyers of knowledge). Every idea has this vulnerability.
Oh, some will consume, assimilate and adopt an argument. Otherwise, what is the point of tossing it in the treacherous waters. But there are always those with some ideological axe to grind, who enjoy destroying. Like toddlers who get a thrill by knocking down towers of blocks, never building one themselves.
Then rarer indeed, but best of all, are those who add to the tower of knowledge. Who find its weak points, but not in order to tear it down, but to remove extraneous bits and contribute needed reinforcement toward building it stronger and higher. These souls are to be cherished.
The price of expressing one’s opinion outside of one’s tribal bubble has grown steep by the day over these past years. Simply having an informed opinion is difficult enough in this tsunami of polarized lies that is our current culture. Putting that opinion in the public sphere with one’s name on it is like putting one’s head in a guillotine. Maybe it won’t be severed from your body, but it might be. And maybe your own home is public enough.
The truth is that it is reassuring to me that no argument is perfect and unassailable. Good on the fucking universe for making it that way! I feel reassured and relieved by this. I will still try with all my might to make good arguments, but with acceptance of their inherent and inevitable inadequacies. Let me make arguments that can breathe, that have holes that can be crawled into, where a light can be shown on walls I didn’t see- like in dark, hidden subterranean tunnels and caverns. So be it. It is okay.
This is not an excuse for being lazy or stupid. Not all inadequate arguments are worth climbing into. For many arguments there are no treasures in hidden corridors. There’s no point in tugging on a thread in a tangled ball of yarn. And why lose one’s head for trivial reasons?
The sad reality, to me, is that the world is run by those who admit no holes in their arguments. And they pull this off because most people don’t look for holes when lies tell them what they want to hear. They simply follow. That is, until false promises do not materialize. Then they become angry and the ground is prepared for the next lying scoundrel with a new (old) set of airtight arguments, saying, “That last guy/gal got it all wrong. I have an infallible idea and a foolproof set of plans for how to make everything alright.”
Is this why the 2-party political system was invented? Is this just an emergent phenomenon, a consequence of innate human psychological and social tendencies? Or is the system being diabolically orchestrated by the a so-called “elite cabal”, keeping us distracted by the illusion that we have a choice.
What do you think?
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