It’s a fine art as an adult to learn what to stay sensitive to. It’s feeling increasingly easy to choose desensitization and normalization over staying sensitive, aware, and engaged.
—Anne McCarthy, in Stuck
Category: Articles
Sex vs warmth
No amount of money or sex could take the place of friendship, loyalty and a girlie heart-to-heart. “Sex [you] could, and did, get everywhere,” she once wrote. “Warmth was rare.”
—The Economist, in ‘Obituary: Judith Krantz died on June 22nd’
(Also: why I believe that sexual infidelity is immaterial. Emotional infidelity is what really matters. Yet, the society considers them the reverse.)
Why women prefer cities…
Women leave in greater numbers than men, says Hiroya Masuda, the author of an alarming report on rural depopulation. “There is a glass ceiling for women everywhere, but in rural areas it tends to be made of thick steel,” he says.
—The Economist, in ‘Rural areas bear the burden of Japan’s ageing, shrinking population’
It’s not just in Japan.
Cows, horses and dogs…. and ¡Cats!
Bovids, equids and, in particular, canids, were put to work by H. sapiens; felids always took a slightly different view of the matter, but were indulged for their rodent-catching talents.
—The Economist, in ‘Pets have gained the upper paw over their so-called owners’
On Fear
—Tolstoy (from “A Calendar of Wisdom” by Leo Tolstoy, Roger Cockrell)If you are afraid of something, you should know that the cause of your fear is something within, rather than outside, you.
Theresa May, the ‘valiant pugilist’
One senior Conservative MP describes Mrs May’s method of government as “valiant pugilism”. Rapid decision-taking and parliamentary dealmaking are things to which she is particularly ill-suited.
— The Economist, in ‘Missing: the British government’
“It’s a fantastic skill, her ability to do nothing,” says one of her former cabinet ministers, almost admiringly.
Why I love reading The Economist #312
In his earlier incarnations in politics, Mr Gove always played Jeeves to an Etonian Wooster. Now the Woosters have imploded and Mr Gove is his own man.
— The Economist, in ‘Michael Gove, moderate maverick’
Use my marker 