#American society spawns trauma and this #trauma expresses itself in a variety of #selfdestructive #pathologies, including the erosion of #democracy and rise of #neofascism.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/09/06/chris-hedges-trauma-in-the-usa/

@Lazarou It must be depressing indeed. But, if it's any comfort, #exceptionalism is intrinsic to all #Nationalist #pathologies .

#WhiteNationalists, #Hindu #Supremacists: the #Pathologies of the World’s Two Largest #Democracies
https://tomdispatch.com/between-a-yoga-mat-and-a-hard-place/

NEW ARTICLE: "Are #international #organisations in #decline? An absolute and relative perspective on institutional change" with Maria Debre published in Global Policy

Many international organisations (IOs) are currently challenged. And there's much debate on the #crisis of liberal international order, #contestation, loss of #legitimacy, #gridlock, #pathologies and #exiting member states

BUT: Are IOs also in decline? Surprisingly difficult question

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.13170

NEW ARTICLE: "Are #international #organisations in #decline? An absolute and relative perspective on institutional change" with Maria Debre published in Global Policy

Many international organisations (IOs) are currently challenged. And there's much debate on the #crisis of liberal international order, #contestation, loss of #legitimacy, #gridlock, #pathologies and #exiting member states

BUT: Are IOs also in decline? Surprisingly difficult question

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1758-5899.13170

‘Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated,” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental #pathologies were therefore known as alienists,’ #historian and writer Caleb Carr clarifies in a preliminary note to his 1994 #thriller novel. ... thus begins my blog entry "#alienist" from 14 years and one month ago today. Still worthwhile ;^) https://xirdalium.net/2008/11/01/alienist/