On Tankies, Street Preachers, and Ye

A humanist essay on our selective approach to neurodiversity

I have a tankie in the family. This is a person inclined to pro-authoritarian views, but through the lens of Marxist-Leninist Communism as a state project best directed by a strongman and necessitating bitter military struggle to come to pass. This person is also, like me, someone with bipolar, though their version of this illness is more mania-driven, …