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I know lots from Barthes and Foucault and Derrida. On the PhD level, I encountered these writers - which totally did not make sense to me - but were hailed as revolutionary - maybe because they fit with the inner reality of many young profs. As I wrote in one of the comments, I have had hardly any vaccines.

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They made great sense to me. Which is why I was so worried given the impact it was having on my peers.

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Are you very vaccinated? I had zero childhood vaccines except for smallpox. And then nothing until one other v at age 12.

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How fortunate. Your parents are/were brilliant.

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Same here, polio and pox I think as a child (don't remember was too small) At first I thought it was just polio. But I got very sick of one and had to be hospitalized so I think that was pox. And then 7 to come to the states LOL.

But of course, I was in my 40s and it seems my brain is mostly intact. Well I hope. I was appalled at that obligatory jab series, which I did twice because my first green card was refused. And then I was totally disgusted to read that children here get 70 shots in schooltime! I dont know exactly for Europe but found Belgium only has only 1 obligatory, polio, and the rest is by choice. I think most children get a couple like measles, probably in school.

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It was the most antisocial/unempathic/self-obsessed - all id, if we are talking psychoanalytically - students/tutors who clove to these pm theories in my experience, so I think you are correct.

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