Are you yearning for psychological safety? Do you seek a sense of belonging that will dispel feelings of alienation engendered by constant admonitions about your privilege and the systemic oppression this inflicts on others? Has your trust been shattered by mobs of terrorist supporters chanting for the death of white-adjacent settler colonialist friends of yours while you walk around campus on eggshells trying not to use the wrong pronoun?

Then you need to sign up for MIT’s new Community Dialogue Series luncheons.

Cohosted by the MIT Systems Awareness Lab and the MIT Center for Constructive Communications, enjoy a lovely selection of word salads as you immerse yourself in heartwarming stories of shared aspirations, greater collaboration, and kumbaya creativity.

In these interactive sessions, you will participate in dialogue circles with fellow members of the MIT community.  (IRB disclosure: The dialogues will be recorded, transcribed, and anonymized for research purposes.) In a culminating Community Sensemaking session, we as a MIT community will reflect on our stories of generative social fields and how we can grow these conditions as a campus community.

Rest assured, the administration will continue to throw mental health professionals and communitarian value experts at MIT’s student body trying to understand what has made an entire generation so emotionally fragile. None of this will do any good, but at least we will all feel that we are doing our performative duty justifying the existence of MIT’s burgeoning non-productive staff.