Does doing your daily work feel like an “intellectual lobotomy?” Of course an actual lobotomy is that antiquated psychosurgery in which healthy brain tissue was intentionally mutilated or removed for the purpose of behavior control. The goal was “to eradicate the behavior which others found undesirable.”
Last week Supreme Court Justice David Souter said he undergoes a “sort of annual intellectual lobotomy” when the Supreme Court term begins in October, a condition that he said lasts until the end of the term the following summer. Wow – that’s pretty grim. And this guy’s not just standing on an assembly line making widgets.
