illness expelling the toxins
"Illness Expelling the Toxins," October 29, 2022 (#302)
title from "Trisha McFarland and the Tough Tootsie" by Matthew M. Holman (2014)
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta (2022)
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Saving the World by Anand Giridharadas (2018)
last line from Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant (2013)
Illness Expelling the Toxins
The beginning of the school year was always a shock to the system, a
universal piece of software that could make everyone in the world
hold their breath underwater for longer. If there were chicken fights
because social work is almost constitutionally a zoom-out discipline,
those awkward early moments when you have to wander through
the business world: the culture wrought by the atomizing protocols
started talking about people we knew, the colleges I applied to, stuff
sending more than a thousand people a day to emergency rooms. And
some had two-car garages or finished basements or chemically lush
money to mingle with political leaders and others of similar social
negative feedback indicating that they were below average.
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