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Can You Survive the Bureaucratic Hunger Games?
Licensing logic so twisted, Kafka would take notes.
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Weaponized Ethics: How Licensing Boards Became Ideological Cartels
The Dangerous Merger of Morality and Licensing
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A Fairytale That Starts Where Most Stories End
What happens when the institutions we trust forget their purpose?
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Burn the Syllabus: Rebuilding Higher Ed from First Principles
This isn’t anti-education. It’s pro-reality.
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Why Ovechkin’s Record Was the Antidote to Our Achievement-Starved Era
A torch passed in the most ancient way: through mastery, not media.
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Higher Ed’s Reform Problem Isn’t Political—It’s Psychological
How groupthink and ego quietly protect broken institutions.
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10 Things the Progressive Left No Longer Believes In
If we want peace, we need principles. Time to choose.
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Two New Laws Could Stop Professional Censorship in Its Tracks
You don’t have to comply with ideological gatekeeping—here’s how to push back.
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The DEI Crackdown Has Begun—But the Battle Is Far From Over
Destroying bad systems isn’t enough—we need to replace them and build something better.
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Diogenes In Exile
Diogenes In Exile
Your compass for navigating the swirling seas of culture, psychology, and academia, where we occasionally roast elite ideas like marshmallows at a philosophy-themed campfire.
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Higher Ed’s Reform Problem Isn’t Political—It’s Psychological
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Two New Laws Could Stop Professional Censorship in Its Tracks
You don’t have to comply with ideological gatekeeping—here’s how to push back.
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State Laws Ignored: Counseling Accreditation and How to Demand Reform NOW!
The accreditation controversy and how to force lawmakers to take notice
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No More Waiting: How to Fight for Change—Regardless of Who’s in Office
Win or lose, your voice matters—take action and shape the policies you care about
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How to Write a Letter to the Editor that Gets Noticed - 10 Rules
Everything you need to know to write a letter to the Editor that grabs attention.
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Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Bigoted Counseling Programs—Here’s How to Stop It
Your therapist might be trained to push activism, not healing—take action now.
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Higher Ed’s Reform Problem Isn’t Political—It’s Psychological
How groupthink and ego quietly protect broken institutions.
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The Battle for Reform: 75 Days Down, Here’s What I’ve Pulled Off
I can’t do this alone—spreading the word is just as crucial as uncovering the truth.
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The Psychological Takeover: How Therapy is Becoming a Tool of Oppression, Dispositions Part 5
The mental health industry is no longer about healing. It’s about ideological control.
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Trained to Betray: How Ideologically Captured Counselor Training Hurts Vulnerable Kids - Part 3
Therapists are being forced to adopt radical beliefs—or risk their careers, with kids caught in the crossfire.
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Trained to Obey: Required Grading of Counseling Students on 'Dispositions' Part 2
When your future depends on ‘the right’ beliefs, is it really an education?
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Can You Survive the Bureaucratic Hunger Games?
Licensing logic so twisted, Kafka would take notes.
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🔥 "Welcome to the 2026 Oscars: The Night of a Thousand Struggle Sessions"!
We are getting ready early! With a new dress code: Inspired by medieval monks and Soviet-era ration lines.
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America’s Great Renaming - The Official Guide to Never Knowing Where You Are Anymore
Remember when places had names? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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The Civilized Person’s Satirical Guide to Polite Encounters with Former DEI Officers and Other Progressives
A refined guide to dodging dogma while progressives detox from Social Justice brainwashing
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New DSM-6 Disorders So Ridiculous, Even Your Therapist Will Laugh
More labels, less accountability—mental health just got a glow-up!
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Psychology

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New DSM-6 Disorders So Ridiculous, Even Your Therapist Will Laugh
More labels, less accountability—mental health just got a glow-up!
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Counseling’s Political Purity Push: Unveiling the Identity Crisis That Hijacked Accreditation and Shaped a Profession
How Mental Health Therapy was Captured by Social Justice Ideology
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State Laws Ignored: Counseling Accreditation and How to Demand Reform NOW!
The accreditation controversy and how to force lawmakers to take notice
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The Real Reason Science Is Failing Us: A Look into Psychology’s Blind Spot
Are we silencing the studies that could transform our understanding of human nature?
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Is Cultural Sensitivity Undermining Mental Health Treatment?
There is an epidemic of mental illness in Japan called hikikomori.
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