The tulips have given place to birdsong and children’s laughter amid the greening
#normalcy #haven
#normalcy
Why rejoice in the misfortune of others
One way to feel my social status improving is if someone else lowers theirs. And so, when I see someone mess up in ways that cause them to lose face, and thus lose social status, I can feel a burst of satisfaction as my own status is raised, at no cost to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
#joy #resentment #selfEsteem #rivalry #Schadenfreude #humiliation #sociality #normalcy #morals #sociology #philosophy #criticalThinking #psychology #populism #unitarian #unitarianism #communitarianism #farRight #family #patriarchy #tradition #values
“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is the impact achieved by what they do.”
Michel #Foucault in "Histoire de la #folie à l'âge classique" (a history of insanity in the Classical Age)
#sociality #normalcy #medecineHistory #history #madness #quote #quotes #self #mentalHealth #perversion #morals #sociology #philosophy #criticalThinking #psychology #selfPower
Autism is an illegible feature
"How disabling it is depends as much on your social circumstances as it does on your symptoms."
"It turns out that, actually, most people are uncomfortable around social difference and get considerably less comfortable when you point it out."
Laurie Penny: https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism @socialpsych via @hosford42
#stigma #tolerance #acceptance #selfAcceptance #autism #handicap #normalcy #relationships #society #living #socialty #quotes #self #selfPower #mentalHealth #psychology #criticalThinking #anthropology #fragility
https://www.fogolf.com/945720/golf-club-in-el-paso-wants-to-help-veterans-transition-to-civilian-life/ Golf club in El Paso wants to help veterans transition to civilian life #Camaraderie #ElPaso #Golf #GolfClubs #LinksToFreedom #Normalcy #Program #Transition #veterans
A quotation from Josh Billings
Mankind ain’t apt tew respekt verry mutch what they are familiar with, it iz what we don’t know, or kant see, that we hanker for.
[Mankind ain’t apt to respect very much what they are familiar with; it is what we don’t know, or can’t see, that we hanker for.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76244/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #desire #familiarity #imagination #mundane #normalcy #novelty #respect #unknown #usual
A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don’t particularly care about the usual. If you want to get an idea of a friend’s temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
The Black Swan, Introduction (2007)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #exceptions #extraordinary #normalcy #normality #understanding #unusual #usual #blackswan
The step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small, almost accidental, that I wonder why it astonishes you at all, or why you trouble to reason about it. If it were reasonable it could not be miraculous, could it?
Ellis Peters (1913-1995) English writer, translator [pseud. of Edith Mary Pargeter, who also wrote under the names John Redfern, Jolyon Carr, Peter Benedict]
The Holy Thief, ch. 10 [Aline] (1992)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/peters-ellis/3130/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wonder #miracle #nature #normalcy #ordinary #reason
A quotation from Douglas Adams
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/
#quote #quotes #quotation #age #aging #excitement #innovation #naturalorder #normalcy #perspective #progress #technology #gettingold #growingold #henoed
A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort
Men’s ideas are like card-playing or any other game. Ideas which in the past I’ve seen considered reckless have since become commonplace, almost trivial, and adopted by men unworthy of sharing them. Ideas which now seem extraordinary will be regarded feeble and perfectly ordinary by our descendants.
[Les idées des hommes sont comme les cartes et autres jeux. Des idées que j’ai vu autrefois regarder comme dangereuses et trop hardies, sont depuis devenues communes, et presque triviales, et ont descendu jusqu’à des hommes peu dignes d’elles. Quelques-unes de celles à qui nous donnons le nom d’audacieuses seront vues comme faibles et communes par nos descendans.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 145 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 115]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/742…
#quote #quotes #quotation #commonplace #concepts #convention #danger #expectations #ideas #normalcy #novelty #ordinary #passageoftime #revolution #statusquo #triviality
Living in Ghana feels as natural as home. 🌞 From endless summers to thriving natural hair culture, life here is a journey worth sharing. Read my latest journal entry about resilience, opportunity, and embracing the African experience. 🌍✨
Today’s #coffee pick: decaf Starbucks brand House blend, said to have cocoa and toffee notes. This one was hiding in my stash, unopened and pristine like it was all that. So I plugged in my #espresso machine and brewed myself a cuppa #normalcy. (Highly recommended.) Lovely smell while brewing. Packed with ice, flavored with a splash of English toffee syrup, and topped off with caramel vanilla and hazelnut creamer. Hello, darkness, my old friend. Delish!
"Racism is the expression and exercise of a power relationship."
"You don't vote far right out of misunderstanding or lack of education but to defend a racial order."
"You've achieved a little status and you don't want to be robbed of the fruits of your labour."
… translated from Dr. Félicien Faury (fr): https://peertube.stream/w/heJhX85bBz4Xr2XQZ6mPqp
#voting #merit #class #anthropology #conformance #normalcy #masculinity #manliness #racism #school #failure #cultureWars #work #labor #extremeRight #whiteness #fragility #whiteFragility #order #socialOrder #affects #France #FRPol #farRight #Bardella #LePen #Parliament #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #resentment #colorLine #colourLine #lineOfColor #Trump #DonaldTrump
#Normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
Climate would've killed it—if #covid hadn't.
Yet normalcy is dead.
Yet we have yet to bury it.
We only got so many #spoons.
We can bury ourselves or bury the dead.
We only got so many spoons.
Use them wisely.
Previously: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057
(Originally April 22, 2022 on Xitter.)
🇺🇸 Good Morning #America 🥥🌴 ! How long before the #Trump Titanic starts sinking & the #traitors start jumping off? Or will the #lindseygraham, #TedCruz , #MarcoRubio, etc go down with the ship? Does TRump really think bringing on #brainworm #jfkjr is going to save him?
#Kamala finally called him out. He is a small, petty, coward who hides behind others while lobbing insults & whining like the little #manchild he is. I wish they'd bring back those orange, baby balloons. 👶
Time to get to work America. #Republicans and #Independents. Please join us in voting 🗳 for #democracy, #decency and #normalcy. Disagree about how to get things done. But during Trump's 1st term he was the #dividerandcheif Children and babies stripped from their parents arms. People in cages. He did nothing about Health Care, nothing about Infrastructure, nothing to enrich the lives of everyday Americans. He spent the time enriching himself & his family. Giving tax cuts to billionaires. He watched & did nothing as thousands died #COVID19
"In the 2nd half of the 20th century, there was a short time when Western governments and cultures pretended they were against genocide: one in particular, the Holocaust. But before that, they had been for it."
Thank you for the link @RFancio
I even understand that prof. Julia Steinberger asks us to consider perpetrators as normal.
It reminds me of "the banality of evil" from Hannah #Arendt:
Adolf Eichmann ‘never realised what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’. (From her 1963 book.)
Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’.
#genocide #genocides #bookStodon #perpetrators #normal #normalcy #HannahArendt #evil
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