AI chatbots create the fantasy of the always available, understanding Other. Such pseudotherapy inhibits subjective growth by undermining our abilities to tolerate frustration and promotes regressive, infantile ways of relating to others.| Damage
A bombshell landed on the literary world last year after the death of Cormac McCarthy, the man who had been, arguably, America’s greatest living novelist. The shock was not McCarthy’s passing (he was 89), but a Vanity Fair article by Vincenzo Barney that broke news of a nearly fifty-year relationship with a woman named Augusta … Continue reading While his characters were getting better (a cautionary tale)→| joshuamcnall.com