You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.
"The Chippo". Chippendale Hotel c.1886. A late Victorian era pub built during boom times; it's always just been there, a quiet & casual watering hole with no pretences. An Inner West institution. Chippendale.
INSTITUTION | "Questions" préalable et préparatoire : appliquées jadis pour les crimes capitaux ➽ https://bit.ly/Question-Aveux-Torture Employée à l’égard des accusés déjà condamnés à mort pour obtenir la révélation de leurs complices, la question préalable, après laquelle l’exécution avait immédiatement lieu, fut abolie en France par la déclaration du 1er mai 1788, la question préparatoire, qui avait lieu au cours du procès pour les crimes capitaux, ayant quant à elle été supprimée en vertu de la déclaration du 24 août 1780
The Light In The Darkness; The White In The Blackness
Tags: Psychosis, Psychiatric Disorders, Mental Health, Medication, Depression, PTSD, Overdose, Addiction, Drug Substence Abuse, Institutions, Hospitalisation [to be continued]
Saturday Snippet:
'I can't imagine what you're going through. I wish that I could take away all your pain, your sorrow.'
Obscuring the symphony of colours are buildings, for miles beyond; varying in height and width. Neither match the other, almost like civilians; different in structure, internally and externally. Resemblances can be made, the human flesh signifies their being by name while the architectural structure of bricks and mortar give a sense of binding in their outerwork. Though like humans, their outer detects are visible, signs of wear and tear, behind the flesh, humans have wounds invisible to the naked eye. Buildings tell a thousand stories of its previously owned tenants, the inner workings of furnishings or neglect are similar to human kind; a destruction of each other. And while one builds walls in metaphor to seek closure, comfort and protection; a sledge hammer of words and anger can break through even the toughest of walls.
"Mon idée de la liberté – La valeur d’une chose réside parfois non dans ce qu’on gagne en l’obtenant, mais dans ce qu’on paye pour l’acquérir,- dans ce qu’elle coûte. Je cite un exemple. Les institutions libérales cessent d’être libérales aussitôt qu’elles sont acquises : il n’y a, dans la suite, rien de plus foncièrement nuisible à la liberté que les institutions libérales. On sait bien à quoi elles aboutissent : elles minent sourdement la volonté de puissance, elles sont le nivellement de la montagne et de la vallée érigé en morale, elles rendent petit, lâche et avide de plaisirs,- le triomphe des bêtes de troupeau les accompagne chaque fois. Libéralisme : autrement dit abêtissement par troupeaux…"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Le Crépuscule des idoles, « Flâneries inactuelles », trad. Henri Albert, 1888.
[WHEN WE WALK IN, THEY KNOW US BY NAME. YOU'RE WELCOMED NO MATTER WHAT. DAN, YOUR FISH AND CHIPS ARE UP. THERE'S A LOT OF PLACES IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA, BUT NOT LIKE GORDY'S. REALLY, I MEAN, THIS IS AN INSTITUTION.]
The family is the institution in which children have their earliest education, their earliest experiences in the learning of languages, the nurturance of cognitive, emotional, and motor competences, the maintenance of interpersonal relationships, the internalization of values, and the assignment of meaning to the world. Furthermore, the family is the institution within which children first develop ... their educative styles - their characteristic ways of engaging in, moving through and combining educative experiences over the lifespan. Given the changes in the structure, composition, and character of American families since World War II, and particularly during the past two decades, one would have reason to expect a far greater range and diversity of early education - to wit, a far greater range and diversity of languages, competences, values, personalities, and approaches to the world and to its educational opportunities.