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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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0:00.0 | God bless you, dystopian quevis. What's the crack? Welcome to the Blind By |
0:06.1 | Podcast. I have a nice long podcast for you this week. As promised, this |
0:12.4 | podcast is about psychology and mental health. I'm going to speak about |
0:17.2 | Gestalt Psychology, which is an interesting school of psychology that you |
0:21.5 | enjoy. But before that, I have some some hot takey stuff that I use to get |
0:30.1 | into the Gestalt Psychology. So sit back and enjoy it. I've been having an |
0:36.9 | enjoyable week. I found out that I'm on a second government watchlist. Let me |
0:42.0 | explain. Few weeks back, I mentioned that the Irish government in specific |
0:50.0 | the Department of Justice were collecting tweets from anyone who had been |
0:55.7 | critical of the system of direct provision in Ireland. If you're a listener from |
1:01.3 | outside of Ireland, direct provision is a very cruel system in Ireland, whereby |
1:05.4 | people who seek asylum, so asylum seekers and refugees when they come to Ireland |
1:10.1 | while they're being processed, they're essentially put into a law security |
1:14.8 | prison for an indefinite amount of time. Some people are there for decades and |
1:18.2 | it removes their autonomy. It's quite cruel and it's also a system that's |
1:24.0 | it's for a profit. So it's paid for by people's taxes, but there's loads of |
1:29.9 | private companies that run direct provision centers for a profit, are in loads of |
1:34.8 | money affid. So you have this self perpetuating cruel industry where people's |
1:39.5 | misery has been turned into a commodity. And I'm quite critically this as I |
1:45.6 | should be, as anyone should be, I'm critical of it a lot. Now if you want to hear |
1:49.0 | more about direct provision, listen to my podcast with Ellie Keziambe and |
1:54.4 | Michelle Dyermidi, Ellie Keziambe is someone who she's an activist who has |
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