'Certain Sorts of the Mentally Ill'....Yes there is a pathology (possibly) intrinsic to mass-mediated mass society whereby it is inherently skewed towards particular kinds of personality....mouthy kinds, angry kinds, busy-body kinds. Modern Liberal Democracy has given a disproportionate power to these kinds.....partly because normal peop…
'Certain Sorts of the Mentally Ill'....Yes there is a pathology (possibly) intrinsic to mass-mediated mass society whereby it is inherently skewed towards particular kinds of personality....mouthy kinds, angry kinds, busy-body kinds. Modern Liberal Democracy has given a disproportionate power to these kinds.....partly because normal people - people with a life - are not so one-track-minded, politically obsessed.
And while on this subject, it's about time we stopped sanctifying 'protest' and 'activism'. In dangerous places like Iran and Afghanistan, these things are brave, risky and noble but in the cosseted, cushy West they are mostly just vanity and narcissism.
'Certain Sorts of the Mentally Ill'....Yes there is a pathology (possibly) intrinsic to mass-mediated mass society whereby it is inherently skewed towards particular kinds of personality....mouthy kinds, angry kinds, busy-body kinds. Modern Liberal Democracy has given a disproportionate power to these kinds.....partly because normal people - people with a life - are not so one-track-minded, politically obsessed.
And while on this subject, it's about time we stopped sanctifying 'protest' and 'activism'. In dangerous places like Iran and Afghanistan, these things are brave, risky and noble but in the cosseted, cushy West they are mostly just vanity and narcissism.
….and often funded and enabled by shadow-groups with an entirely different agenda.