Day: February 5, 2018

tumblr_lwdyxtALHX1qzrzrro1 steelopus: They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse In Your Soul Not to put too fine a point on itSay I’m the only bee in your bonnetMake a little birdhouse in your soul

“Doubting Mania” (la folie du doute)

Jennifer Fleissner on “doubt” as part of what she calls “obsessional modernity“: The mechanical discourse of neurasthenia as nervous exhaustion, however, was not the only way its symptoms were characterized in the 1880s and 1890s. Notably, a number of American psychologists borrowed from their French counterparts another term to describe some of the condition’s more…

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The Maoism of Donald Trump

The Maoism of Donald Trump May 2016: In many respects, ordinary people in China, or the “old hundred names,” as they are called—a colloquial catchall for those commoners who didn’t make it into the history books—are not unlike the largest segment of Trump supporters: of limited education, dispossessed, and frequently overlooked because of their distance…

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