This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
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This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
Uncle Sam Back on the Couch: Bourbon, Archetypes, and the American Psyche
Shrink The Nation
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3 months ago
Uncle Sam Back on the Couch: Bourbon, Archetypes, and the American Psyche
Pull up a seat—and maybe a plastic cup—because Uncle Sam is back on the couch, Old Crow Bourbon in hand. Not the fancy small-batch bottle… the gallon jug that once fueled the likes of President Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain, courtesy of Dr. James Crow’s 19th-century chemistry wizardry. David and Rob blend history, psychology, and bourbon-soaked banter to dissect America’s collective unconscious, borrowing from Carl Jung’s big ideas: archetypes, the shadow, and the midlife transition. We tra...
Shrink The Nation
This week, America’s longest-running group therapy session takes the couch: Congress — the branch that was supposed to regulate emotion but now runs entirely on it. Once the nation’s prefrontal cortex, it’s devolved into the limbic system on Twitter, acting out every impulse for the cameras while taxpayers foot the therapy bill. David and Rob break down how we got here: From World War II unity to post–Cold War identity crisisHow Newt Gingrich turned outrage into a business modelThe 90s cultur...
