Maywood
1 min readJun 11, 2020

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Fascinating ... but who is this 'You' in the article?

"YOUR brain is the same", "No matter how uncertain YOU are ...", "YOUR brain is designed ...", "YOU are only as old as YOU allow YOURself to feel", etc., etc.

I have the suspicion that the use of the English second-person pronoun YOU, singular or plural, does not refer to anyone human here, but is just a generality, a kind of stereotype that refers to everybody and nobody at the same time.

The downside to such "14 Psychological Superpowers" is that in believing them, YOU have become just another Homer Simpson. A truly remarkable feat.

Great marketing!

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Maywood
Maywood

Written by Maywood

Researcher in le temps perdu: sex, race, ethics, the clinic, logic, and mathematics. Founder and analyst at PLACE www.topoi.net

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