Jonathan Malesic

@JonMalesic

Essayist, ethicist, former prof. Writing a book on burnout for . jonathanmalesic at gmail. Newsletter: . It's ma-LESS-ik.

Dallas, TX
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2010.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    17. pro 2019.

    Just published! My essay in praise of cheap, mediocre sushi and against the sort of connoisseurship that keeps us from seeing that the highest good is always right in front of us.

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  2. 1. velj

    This short essay is about much more than being a late 80s little shit:

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    31. sij

    Please read if you are a teacher and are struggling.

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  4. 31. sij

    What shall it profit a woman to establish a Twitter persona that she can leverage into a deal for a book of identity-driven essays that she can then sell as a streaming series on which she will consult that will kick off her TV creator/producer career and lose her own soul?

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    30. sij

    Occasionally when the isolation and solitude required to write gets me down, I return to the consolation of this exquisite essay by Fenton Johnson.

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  6. 30. sij

    Really deep & thoughtful profile of Millennial religious sisters, incl. : “Religious life brings a certain stability of identity, like anyone finding the career that fits them or the family that fits them, but the life itself is not stable.”

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  7. 30. sij

    For discussion in my "Why Work?" class this afternoon: 's essay from last week on evil jobs.

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    30. sij

    This, from 's new book, is such a good explanation of why journalists are always on twitter

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    29. sij

    People ask me, "How do I become a published author?" I say to them, "You're asking the wrong question. The right question is, how do I become a raccoon who lives in Central Park and hides in the bushes by the reservoir with all my raccoon friends?"

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  10. 29. sij

    Same. Really, it’s not that much to ask. There are SO MANY other topics. Picture frames! Wool blends! Aardvarks! Write about them.

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    If you tried to tweet FoxNews clips of "conservatives" spitting in the face of the American majority, you wouldn't have time for anything else.

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  12. 28. sij

    I loved this essay by Ann Napolitano on letters she has written herself every 10 yrs since age 14. It's about being in relation to someone who does not exist -- your past & future self -- but who still makes ethical claims on you.

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  13. 28. sij

    If it were up to me, Thomas Aquinas would be the patron saint of burnout. He worked himself extremely hard for years until his mind & body shut down. I can relate. Here's my 2018 essay on that (listed as notable in Best American Essays):

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  14. 28. sij

    This story doesn't mention the online mandatum. If I fish around, I can find one that does. But the story does include this: "Hindery ... showed the assembled clergy images from at least one pornographic Web site."

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  15. 28. sij

    Bishop Barron's desire that there be a Twitter mandatum is not really new. At a 1998 conference on Catholicism & the internet, something similar was proposed. As we know, it didn't happen. A report from the conference:

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  16. 28. sij

    Not an endorsement, but certainly true.

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    27. sij

    you can't speak truth to power when the people who supposedly have your back are willing to throw you under the bus at a whim because a bunch of people got pissed at a small handful of tweets.

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  18. 27. sij

    To illustrate Packer's point: I hesitated to write this tweet, bc what if so-and-so doesn't like it & gets mad at me? That's a stupid fear for a writer to have, yet clearly I have it. The problem isn't with so-and-so, but with me. I should get over it.

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  19. 27. sij

    I once overheard a student at an elite college complain to another: "I can't take a class in Russian history; I don't know any Russian history!" That's just an example. Lear's point is that our posture of knowingness opens us up to incredible risks: We become Oedipus.

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  20. 27. sij

    I read Packer's complaint about his Yale students not as, a "kids these days!" but as a data point against the broader background of a problem of "knowingness" (theorized by Jonathan Lear): the feeling of having to already know everything in advance.

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