This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language or pushing boundaries and how it actually functions as desensitization to train audiences to suppress empathy and mistake numbness for nuance. We also look at the billionaire buyout of our attention span and how thei...
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This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language or pushing boundaries and how it actually functions as desensitization to train audiences to suppress empathy and mistake numbness for nuance. We also look at the billionaire buyout of our attention span and how thei...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 118 - The System Wasn’t Built to Heal Us with Dr Rae Anne Ho Fung
Your Therapist Needs Therapy
1 hour 10 minutes
2 months ago
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 118 - The System Wasn’t Built to Heal Us with Dr Rae Anne Ho Fung
Jeremy is joined this week by Dr Rae Anne Ho Fung, a veteran, former teacher, and psychologist who founded The Balanced Collective. They discuss her healing journey from childhood adversity and military service to navigating systemic failures in education, healthcare, and the military-industrial complex, and how those experiences shaped her trauma-informed approach to therapy. Their conversation touches on moral injury in healing spaces, obviously critiques late stage capitalism and inevitabl...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy
This week Jeremy looks at the process in which standup comedy has become a “neutral” on-ramp for culture-war ideology, shifting the Overton Window not through arguments, but through vibes, repetition, and algorithmic adjacency. We look at what gets framed as “reclaiming” language or pushing boundaries and how it actually functions as desensitization to train audiences to suppress empathy and mistake numbness for nuance. We also look at the billionaire buyout of our attention span and how thei...
