Comments on: Collecting psychology experiments as a boy collects butterflies https://www.isegoria.net/2017/03/collecting-psychology-experiments-as-a-boy-collects-butterflies/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:10:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Alrenous https://www.isegoria.net/2017/03/collecting-psychology-experiments-as-a-boy-collects-butterflies/comment-page-1/#comment-2545290 Alrenous Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:14:57 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41658#comment-2545290 Psychologists are middle class, and must be ‘respectable’ and pretend everyone except out and out racists are also ‘respectable.’

The problem being that human nature is not respectable. It’s a shitshow of folly and malice, for the most part. Psychology lectures and textbooks are at best filled with roundabout euphemisms. At worst, they confine themselves to pitying the officially ill.

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