Desire and Fate
Emotional Intelligence: An Oxymoron
Flannery O’Connor wrote somewhere that, “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.” In an important sense, what has gone so dreadfully wrong in our society, with its fetishization of the emotions and even of that most idiotic of contemporary oxymorons, ‘Emotional Intelligence,’ is th…
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