Hi Shawn! My name is Alyssa and I have read both of your blog posts and have enjoyed them. I would love to see more posts from you. I see you have moved when I looked you up on VA DOC prison website. I will post the address here so hopefully Between the Bars will send it to the right address. I hope to hear back soon :)
I FOUND THE NEW ADDRESS ONLINE:
Shawn M. Barb #1047380 1821 Estaline Valley Road Craigsville, Virginia 24430
Hi William! My name is Alyssa :) I really liked your blog post you did in 2011. I thought it was really eye opening. It was really interesting to see your perspective on prison guards and how bad they treat people in prison. I am sorry that has happened to you. I also found the prison gangs information interesting. I would love to see some more writing from you. I hope you are doing okay and I hope you write back soon.
Ps. I would love for you to send a picture of yourself to between the bars also;)
Hello Teddy. I have read some of your blog posts and they are very interesting. I like seeing these different perspective you have on life. My name is Alyssa and I am asking a few people on the betweenthebars.org some questions for my own research and was wondering if you would answer them if you felt like it. What are ways that some men deal with missing women in prison? Do you think men change not being around women? If so in what ways? How do you think this affects them when they are released? Do you think men become more reserved or dont know how to deal with a womens "touch" when released? ;) I just want to hear your input on this out of curiosity. Speak your mind. I would love to maybe see a blog post about this too. Thank you. Hope to hear back :)
And another thing my homie got houses and babymommas and you talkin about sum homeless shit and and ur aunty,lol..You almost had me if you wouldn't said all dat crazy shit.. My homie had hella bands b4 he got locked up..You talkin like a old ass man with nothing!! No houses,cars nothing!! Thats how i knew you was a bum ass nigga.. My nigga antione would have never said the shit you wrote..We dont save money when we get locked up!! We come home to it!!! I got ur info tho,u better hope im cool by the time my girl pick me up nigga!!! Dont write back im deleting this wack ass lyin ass website..You almost had me..Relaese account,lol..my homie would kill his self if he had to save canteen money for da streets!!! GO BEG SOMEWHERE ELSE
Never mind i just your profile.Ya'll got the same name but you aint my dawg!! Niggas try every trick in the book fa some cash...Do ya time square ass nigga!! We from miami fl ,nigga u from ohio some fuckin where!! I'm thinkin you my homie pain and u on sum flaw shit..I should have my girl report this 2 da site and you jail officers cause god knows how many people u ripped off!! Them people will be seein you soon i promise dat!! What you just tried 2 pull plus you asking for $100 a month lets see how dem crackers feel about this!! I dont play bout my cash nigga and i feel like you tried to play me so like i said when my girl get thru contacting these people they gon wanna ask u sum questions square ass nigga.
Brah do me ah favor,i cant find you at dat address when i look it up..Tell me something only you and me would know.. I need 2 know dis really you brah... What school did i live across the street from? Better yet,god bless the dead name the twins brah...What did we do when we worked together.. I gotta make sure this you...You never called debbie by her name like dat...Tell me something only me and you know
Ehrenreich notes that although this new style of positive thinking did apparently help invalidism or neurasthenia, it had no effect whatsoever on diseases such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhus, tuberculosis and cholera – just as, today, it will not cure cancer.
Thus it was that positive thinking, the assumption that one only has to think a thing or desire it to make it happen, began its rapid rise to influence. Today, as Ehrenreich shows, it has a massive impact on business, religion and the world's economy. She describes visits to motivational speaker conferences where workers who have recently been made redundant and forced to join the short-term contract culture are taught that a "good team player" is by definition "a positive person" who "smiles frequently, does not complain, is not overly critical and gratefully submits to whatever the boss demands". These are people who have less and less power to chart their own futures, but who are given, thanks to positive thinking, "a world-view – a belief system, almost a religion – that claimed they were, in fact, infinitely powerful, if only they could master their own minds."
And none was more susceptible to the lure of this philosophy than those self-styled "masters of the universe", the Wall Street bankers. Those of us raised to believe that saving up, having a deposit and living within one's means were the way to proceed and who wondered how on earth the credit crunch and the subprime disasters could have happened need look no further than the culture that argued that positive thinking would enable anyone to realise their desires. (Or as one of Ehrenreich's chapter headings has it, "God wants you to be rich".)
Ehrenreich's work explains where the cult of individualism began and what a devastating impact it has had on the need for collective responsibility. We must, she says, shake off our capacity for self-absorption and take action against the threats that face us, whether climate change, conflict, feeding the hungry, funding scientific inquiry or education that fosters critical thinking. She is anxious to emphasise that she does "not write in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment, nor do I have any romantic attachment to suffering as a source of insight or virtue. On the contrary, I would like to see more smiles, more laughter, more hugs, more happiness… and the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking". Her book, it seems to me, is a call for the return of common sense and, I'm afraid, in what purports to be a work of criticism, I can find only positive things to say about it. Damn!
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I FOUND THE NEW ADDRESS ONLINE:
Shawn M. Barb #1047380
1821 Estaline Valley Road
Craigsville, Virginia 24430
Ps. I would love for you to send a picture of yourself to between the bars also;)
Thus it was that positive thinking, the assumption that one only has to think a thing or desire it to make it happen, began its rapid rise to influence. Today, as Ehrenreich shows, it has a massive impact on business, religion and the world's economy. She describes visits to motivational speaker conferences where workers who have recently been made redundant and forced to join the short-term contract culture are taught that a "good team player" is by definition "a positive person" who "smiles frequently, does not complain, is not overly critical and gratefully submits to whatever the boss demands". These are people who have less and less power to chart their own futures, but who are given, thanks to positive thinking, "a world-view – a belief system, almost a religion – that claimed they were, in fact, infinitely powerful, if only they could master their own minds."
And none was more susceptible to the lure of this philosophy than those self-styled "masters of the universe", the Wall Street bankers. Those of us raised to believe that saving up, having a deposit and living within one's means were the way to proceed and who wondered how on earth the credit crunch and the subprime disasters could have happened need look no further than the culture that argued that positive thinking would enable anyone to realise their desires. (Or as one of Ehrenreich's chapter headings has it, "God wants you to be rich".)
Ehrenreich's work explains where the cult of individualism began and what a devastating impact it has had on the need for collective responsibility. We must, she says, shake off our capacity for self-absorption and take action against the threats that face us, whether climate change, conflict, feeding the hungry, funding scientific inquiry or education that fosters critical thinking. She is anxious to emphasise that she does "not write in a spirit of sourness or personal disappointment, nor do I have any romantic attachment to suffering as a source of insight or virtue. On the contrary, I would like to see more smiles, more laughter, more hugs, more happiness… and the first step is to recover from the mass delusion that is positive thinking". Her book, it seems to me, is a call for the return of common sense and, I'm afraid, in what purports to be a work of criticism, I can find only positive things to say about it. Damn!