You have that 100% wrong. Wealthy Viennese families were complaining that their adolescent daughters were making up stories about being molested by their fathers and uncles. Freud built an entire field around this idea of the id and subconscious desires rather than believe in child abuse. This book is written by a former Director of the Freud archives and explains the issue pretty well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assault_on_Truth

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In my jurisdiction that is exactly how they do it. No field sobriety test is used. Just roll down the window and blow. Refusal is the same penalty as a DUI and will earn a trip to the police station for the real test.

Clearly you have never met stupid people. Lucky you.

I knew someone who lived in the same block as a well known motorcycle appreciation society. It was an incredibly clean and safe area. And the local dive bar was fun without a hint of shadiness or trouble. They did not shit where they ate.

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature. There are a lot of albums of his I’d consider unlistenable. I don’t think he cares what I think. He doesn’t care what the Nobel committee thinks either since he didn’t show up.

The one thing they do is skewer pomp and pretension. They are the guys at a dinner party who say “everybody poops so why can’t we talk about it?” Or will ask the minister about his sex life if he asks about their relationship to God.

It can be genuinely stupid and annoying sometimes because it’s a blunt instrument. They assume that everything is fine and that anyone passionate about a cause is a misguided idiot.

Because they enjoy doing it. Look at the number of musical performers who keep going long after their cultural moment has passed. Hell I know people who keep playing and writing and painting even though no has ever paid attention.

It’s difficult for people to understand now, but that used to be considered adulthood.

I’m old, and my parents were old when I was born. My aunts and uncles would have been born from 1905 to the early 1930s. Most of them finished school at grade 8 at 13 or 14 and moved from home shortly after. By 16 it was common to be living in a boarding or rooming house and working a job. The invention of “teenager” as a distinct phase of life is largely a post-second world war phenomenon and is inextricably linked to the change of literacy from grade 8 to a highschool education, and now college. Along with that educational shift there has been a change in what we consider a “child”.

Scotland and Poland seem awfully judgy.

La maladie Anglaise.

It’s pretty clear the French are to blame.

25 years ago our email was screened for keywords and manually reviewed if they registered a hit. Nothingburger.

What?

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The English Patient.

I know. I’m 60 years old. It’s happened a few times both ways. I’m not sure it hurts any less, butaybe if feelsess personal as you get older.

I am. Thanks for asking.

It means you are alive. Welcome to earth.

Trickle down economics.