So here are some links! (stay tuned - this will take a while).
Thread: I don't know about you, but staying sane recently hasn't been that easy. I've found it particularly hard to read novels - something that is usually my go-to therapy.
BUT I've always loved radio, and especially radio drama, and...
So here are some links! (stay tuned - this will take a while).
Brilliant - probably the best thing I've heard on radio on a long time. A dark secret gradually gets revealed (or not) in small town near the British border in Ireland. https://t.co/OvNwCk7zlJ
Vasilly Grossman's sad gorgeous glimpse of humanity in extremis. https://t.co/0sI6L0EGDe
But you need to decide for yourself. - https://t.co/tbKlsN90IF
Cervantes with a touch of Guareschi's Don Camillo set in post-Franco Spain. Communist Mayor and his friend a Catholic priest find new windmills. https://t.co/Xx4atgeXA8
Everyone should read this book every few years anyway so treat this as a religious observance if you have to.
https://t.co/oW4kRkyzxi
Here's 100 of them.
The standouts are from de Maupassant. Joyce's Araby is there from Dubliners, & Balzac, Conan Doyle, Kipling, Poe & Ambrose Bierce also get outings.
For all tastes, a treasure trove https://t.co/bCf5V6r8Ug
https://t.co/4Yujs2HYM4
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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"
The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.
1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!
2) "Repressed memory" syndrome
3) Facilitated Communication [FC]
All 3 led to massive abuse.
"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.
Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.
FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.
For three years I have wanted to write an article on moral panics. I have collected anecdotes and similarities between today\u2019s moral panic and those of the past - particularly the Satanic Panic of the 80s.
— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) September 29, 2018
This is my finished product: https://t.co/otcM1uuUDk
The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.
1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!
2) "Repressed memory" syndrome
3) Facilitated Communication [FC]
All 3 led to massive abuse.
"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.
Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.
FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.