Werner Herzog reads Curious George
ROOSTER.
oh yes oh yes.
The Americanization of Mental Illness
an amazing article, and hits all of the major reasons why it is so important to have cultural anthropologists intimtaely following globalization and its effects. it brings to mind a book i was assigned, “tournaments of value”, which follows the daily practices of women in a small yemeni town. boiled down, the ethnography revealed that, while in our American point of view (that is to say, putting the greatest value on what one can achieve in the public sphere), these women had no power, in reality, from deep within their society, their control of the private sphere empowered them more than we could ever be able to comprehend. this article reveals that the entire concept of “self” and the “mind” differ everywhere, and America’s insistance on codifying behavioral illnesses is producing alarming effects in other nations.
VaginaBike.
MADE MY DAY.
“ The hipsters that will be the “dead end of Western Civilization” are the ones who add nothing new or original and simply recycle and reduce old trends into a meaningless meme ”
TIME Magazine
