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Mr. Trump’s Neighborhood: His Queens and Mine

9/24/2015

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I promised myself (and you) that I would not write anything more on The Donald.  One post (see August 25, 2015) is more than enough. Every additional word written about Trump wastes a moment of time on an attention whore who thrives on self-glorification. Elementary psychology tells us that the best way to extinguish a phenomenon is not to reinforce it. 

On the other hand, what might have happened if the Allies had not banded together to fight the Axis powers? As veterans of  “the Greatest Generation” would be quick to point out, inaction may equate to appeasement. 

This is a good example of the general principal that one cannot live by the conflicting dictates of quotable wisdom alone.  Nor of behavioral psychology.

In the face of such contradictions and conundrums, I have often found it useful to read selected portions of the New York Times with some regularity. After a while, the articles seem to free associate with one another in productive ways, much like my patients and I do in a psychoanalytic session.

So it was when I noticed the following: “Tourists Have Landed in Queens. They’re Staying”. (August 25, Kirk Semple), and ”Donald Trump’s Old Queens Neighborhood Contrasts with the Diverse Areas Around It.” (September 22, Jason Horowitz.)


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