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To PhD or not to PhD that is the question, the process and the answer?

So many people do not tell their own stories, paint their own pictures, dance or sing to their own tunes, that it is hard, but not impossible, I hope, to separate the authentic from the empty rhetoric. Her-story was effectively omitted from his-story. The Bible was written, interpreted and skewed by men, supposedly men of substance, to suit their own ends. The media is owned and wielded by moguls who are the arbiters of power and political influence. White people tell the stories of Black people ignoring colonialism and imperialism and the privilege of their own ‘whiteness’ in the process. It has been duly noted that within the ‘science’ of psychology, that even the rat was white. The focus on the accumulation of knowledge (yet more stories) in the academy, which has often done violence to the community, in both word and deed, cannot be lightly dismissed. This is truer for psychology than any other discipline. In fact, as psychology has shown, there is no aspect of life that has n