This is the big misconception: if you are aware of a problem, and articulate

it – even only to yourself – you have as good as solved it. TOTAL BULL!!

Both psychoanalysis and hipster irony depend on this idea. You cannot cure

yourself of a behavioral illness just by recognizing it, just as you cannot

absolve lame/childish taste by making fun of yourself for indulging it. If anything,

the false empowerment of naming the thing makes it more insidious and acceptable.