I know I'm annoyed by the new ubiquity of CBD, but I'm also annoyed by the notion that we're in some special "anxious times."
By the way, the word "fix" to mean "A measure undertaken to resolve a problem; a solution, a remedy" is only a proposed addition to the OED. (It's U.S. slang going back to 1882 ("All that is necessary is to dig a round pit or cistern... With such a simple fix, it is an easy matter to distribute the liquid.")) "Fix" meaning "A dose of a narcotic drug" is officially recognized by the OED — also U.S. slang — and it goes back to 1867 ("Claret-cobbler..eye-opener, fix-ups, or any other Yankee deception in the shape of liquor").
Which meaning did the NYT intend when it wrote "just a fix for our anxious times"? Are we going to "fix our anxious times" by repairing them using CBD or are we dosing them with a narcotic drug? Well, it's not the times that will get "a fix," but, it's the people, but then they are the ones with the anxiety. Are users of the substance trying to get their anxiety repaired or simply numbed?
Anyway, the article eventually settles into this pop psychology notion that every era has a signature psychological woe and a drug to go with it:
The jittery postwar era, with its backyard bomb shelters and suburban fears about keeping up with the Joneses, gave rise to a boom in sedatives, as seen in the era’s pop songs (“Mother’s Little Helper,” by the Rolling Stones) and best sellers (“Valley of the Dolls,” by Jacqueline Susann).Anxiety about anxiety.
The recessionary 1990s gave rise to Generation X angst, Kurt Cobain dirges and a cultural obsession with newfangled antidepressants (see Elizabeth Wurtzel’s “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”).
The defining sociological condition today, especially among millennials, is arguably anxiety: anxiety about our political dysfunction, anxiety about terrorism, anxiety about climate change, anxiety about student loan debt, even anxiety about artificial intelligence taking away all the good jobs.
A lot of this article is about the commercial ventures that are taking advantage of the seeming/semi- legality of a product that isn't the famous illegal product so many people want to use. These businesses look very aggressive...
...like the James New York-Nomad hotel, which offers a room-service CBD tasting menu featuring CBD-infused meatballs and sriracha-mayo House Tots. Or the Standard hotel outposts in Miami and New York, which sell $50 blood orange-flavored gumdrops by the upscale CBD brand Lord Jones in its minibars. Such sumptuously packaged, premium-priced CBD products appeal to trend-conscious consumers....Now, let's get some gender analysis:
Among beauty products alone, CBD has already achieved cliché status, popping up in blemish creams, sleeping masks, shampoos, hair conditioners, eye serums, anti-acne lotions, mascaras, massage oils, soaps, lip balms, bath bombs, anti-wrinkle serums, muscle rubs and a Sephora aisle’s worth of moisturizers, face lotions and body creams. Even the bedroom is not safe from the CBD invasion, to judge by the spate of CBD sexual lubricants on shelves....
As an alternative health regimen, CBD holds particular appeal to women, said Gretchen Lidicker, the health editor of Mindbodygreen.... “Women have long felt ignored and dehumanized by the medical and health care industries,” she said. “They experience longer wait times for treatment. Their pain and suffering are more likely to be dismissed as anxiety or hysteria.”"Their pain and suffering are more likely to be dismissed as anxiety or hysteria" — Wait! Isn't that the theory of this whole damned NYT piece? CBD is for anxiety. Seems to me, placebos are especially effective if the malady is anxiety. But Lidicker is calling out the sexism of diagnosing women's ailments as anxiety.
I have discovered the dissonance at the center of this NYT article. And now I have to wonder if it's sexist to embrace the theory that the "defining sociological condition" of our time is "anxiety." It's the era of women, and it's the era of anxiety.
Even as we come to the fore, we are diminished.
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I know I'm annoyed by the new ubiquity of CBD, but I'm also annoyed by the notion that we're in some special "anxious times."
Do you ever think you are alone in an opinion, and then someone comes along and blogs it right there on her wonderful blog?
That's what just happened to me.
Their pain and suffering are more likely to be dismissed as anxiety or hysteria.”
Primary care doctors' offices are filled with what is called in medical school, the "Worried Well" and they are all women.
A few beta males and gays are now showing up.
``Every period has its timidities. Do I dare read Ovid? Do I dare disbelieve in immortality? The threat of nuclear warfare may indeed spread anxiety; yet people have always dreaded an eschaton, a violent end to time. Still, after all the qualifications, there does seem to be an alarming cultivation of anxiety in our day. It seems part and parcel of this new open-ended proliferation of anxiety that we cannot pin down the reasons, which themselves proliferate like the spawning images in a state of panic. We might be inclined to connect our modern anxiety with the bustling chaos of urban life, as opposed to farming communities, where anxiety is annual, expected, ritualized. We might argue that a medieval worldview, with its clear distinctions, its sure sense of boundaries, managed anxiety better than the relativisms of the early modern and modern periods, with their two-edged gift of infinite human possibilities. With many qualifications, we must make such distinctions stick. But whatever the causes, anxiety is on us like a plague these days. Not long ago thrillers and murder mysteries were mostly about criminals with distinct motives. Now they feature the serial killer. Unlike the murderer who killed, fulfilled his purpose, and hoped to remain innocuous, the inexorable serial killer with his open-ended string of crimes hopes to become famous as a source of anxiety. News broadcasts, themselves great organizers of anxiety, regularly contain health segments in which the public is invited to become anxious about what it eats, what it buys, how it seeks pleasure. One set of experts steps forth to inculcate anxiety, another to teach us how to live with it. What do those in the know actually know? They always claim to know where our true concerns should lie...
``...This new space, ``social anxiety,'' seems to be an extensive one. There's no housing shortage when it comes to social anxiety. Today we have environmental anxiety (the main subsets being clean air, clean water, clean sunlight); food anxiety; trash anxiety; hatred anxiety; dirt anxiety; dating anxiety; consumer anxiety; parenting anxiety (some of the subsets being toy, spanking, lessons, college, and money anxiety); academic anxiety; television anxiety; political anxiety (subsets too numerous to mention); fashion anxiety; hair anxiety; wealth anxiety; job anxiety; speech anxiety; endangered species anxiety; crime anxiety; medical anxiety; alcohol anxiety; smoking anxiety; and so on through every compartment of modern existence...''
- Wm. Kerrigan, ``Death and Anxiety,'' _Raritan_ XVI:3 Winter 1997 p.74
Auden wrote The Age of Anxiety in 1947. Bernstein wrote a symphony about it in 1950. Plus ça change.
We are living in the best of times. Please people, don't let someone's fantasy about raising money in the name of political power or ratings cause you anxiety. Focus on how your life is right this very moment. Are you safe? Are you clothed? Do you have food in your belly? Do you have shelter? Then you are ok.
If you do not have those things, seek someone to help you. But I suspect the NYTs isn't written for you. It is written for those who have everything yet crave the feeling of unhappiness.
"[Women's] pain and suffering are more likely to be dismissed as anxiety or hysteria"
The griefs of women are quiet, rustle
like crinoline or whisper like
the tearing of old silk;
hum like appliances, give off the sharp sweet smell
of burnt out motors; tap like typewriter keys.
The strengths of women are quiet,
but hardy as the weed that finds its cranny
between the concrete block of the sidewalk
and the concrete slab of the wall, and grows there,
and blooms there.
Men are bums.
We're really better than they are.
Brand X Poetry "The Griefs of Women" after Adrienne Rich
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This country is one of the safest and most prosperous countries in the world. The entire world is better off than it was decades ago. Life is becoming safer, easier, and less stressful, compared to life 50 or 100 years ago. But yeah, take the blue pill. Because a group of 'journalists' are telling you how terrible life is. Appreciate what you have. The left is always unhappy. And no amount of change ever makes a difference.
" Now available in . . . dog treats"
Dogs have long felt ignored and dehumanized by the medical and health care industries.
1. I had never heard of CBD until this post. I had to Google it.
2. “anxiety about climate change” Well, that’s a complete scam and nothing to worry about.
I recall a report that someone jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge because he was depressed about global warming. This scam appeals to the weak-minded and the scientifically illiterate.
Laudanum.
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“Women have long felt ignored and dehumanized by the medical and health care industries,” she said. “They experience longer wait times for treatment. Their pain and suffering are more likely to be dismissed as anxiety or hysteria.
Can this possibly be true? Women see the doctor more than men do. Women live longer. Women have guaranteed free birth control and mammograms built into the healthcare laws, as well as breast pumps for nursing. Men have no such specific care covered. Sometimes I think people who write about women are writing from the year 1897.
Google "worried Well" - quite interesting:
Janine Boswell is the worst worried well patient I have ever encountered. In the short time she’s been at our clinic (approximately six years, predating me by five), Mrs. B. has proven herself to be a perpetual fountain, a reliable wellspring, of woeful wellbeing. Presenting complaints have included dizziness, nausea, chest tightness, tinnitus, headaches, disordered stool patterns, shoulder clicking, rib misalignment, etc. At the end of every tale of unbearable misery, whatsoever it entails, she will plead, “Doctor, I’m in a terrible state. It’s just awful. Doctor, you have to do something for me.” Translation: “Here’s a big rock. Roll it up that hill a few dozen times and watch it roll down. Repeat ad infinitum.”
Laudanum.
I would love me some of that.
I spent $60 for an ounce of CBD oil and it didn't do anything. Of course, it was a "sleep" formula not a "pain" formula. So I'm supposed to keep spending til I find something that works.
Even got my pot card and that stuff doesn't work either. Not for real pain. Whole thing is a joke. What works? Opioids. And they're cracking down on it, esp for us surgical pain sufferers here in plain sight. We're easy to find. New Rx required for every minuscule refill. Pharmacists running interference..what a pain in the ass. All because Other People.
Oh, and kratom works. And the FDA wants to schedule that.
But pot? Oh we got pot...BFD...
Jim, “Appreciate what you have. The left is always unhappy. And no amount of change ever makes a difference.”
St. Ignatius Loyola was a big advocate of gratitude. He was the youngest of 14 or 15 children. His leg was broken in a war by a French cannonball. His leg had to be rebroken and reset without anesthesia. He then went on to create the greatest and oldest enterprise in the world.
I have a half-assed theory that humans are programmed to be anxious and weary of their environment. I'm sure it's been beneficial over the years.
In truely trying times people are happiest. They recognize the danger and work collectively to resolve the danger.
In good times, people have no actual dangers to worry about. That's when we get these generalized complaints of anxiety.
My wife was having severe GI pain earlier this year. We went from doctor to doctor in search of something that would ease her pain. Based on test results, she wasn’t a candidate for surgery. Finally, one doctor prescribed a low dose of an anti-depressant medication. At first, I was pissed because it seemed he wasn’t takng her seriously. However, he told me that medication has been proven effective in cases like hers. No one seems to know why. In the end, the drug proved effectve for her. She has to be very careful about what she eats but her quality of life is much better now.
As for the NYT and their anxious times, perhaps they’re upset that their attempts to destroy Trump aren’t working and he’s more popular now than Obama was at this point in his first term. They keep doublng down on their TDS and it just isn’t working. They’re stuck on stupid. That has to be upsettng.
I recall a report that someone jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge because he was depressed about global warming. This scam appeals to the weak-minded and the scientifically illiterate.
Calling Dr Darwin !
You lack principles, Charlie. Isn't there anything you'd die for?
Sure. I'd die for you, if it ever came to that.
I really believe you would.
There are lots of things I'd die for, Emily. My home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle. Now, if I were to bring a raging lion into the house... and wrestle it just to prove that I'd die for you... that would be highly principled of me. But what's a lion doing in a man's house, anyway?
- The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Got your CBD right here- it might taste like sugar water, but that is is just coincidence.
Women consume far more medical services than men, both in total and per capita, and this is so even when adjusting for gynecological and childbirth expenditures.
This alone makes absurd the "ignored" trope. Women are the principal clientele of western medicine.
There have been some interesting associations that have been mainstreamed in the last several decades. Women as stressors. Mothers as automatons. Housewifes as dependants. Pregnant women as beasts of burden. The feminine gender as weak. The female sex as immature. Women disenfranchised through Choice, two choices, too late, and neo-females. Then there is the Progressives' latest target: white girls next door.
Upper-middle-class American white women, the core Times demographic, are the freest, most prosperous women in human history, and also the most nervous, anxious, and rattled. What a drag it is getting old.
A simple hypothesis to explain the article is that men are much less prone to complain about personal matters. It must be a sex difference, possibly related to discounting risk and personal danger. The same tendency to skateboard or prize-fight or charge machine-guns may explain why men are more likely to just grin and bear it.
Granted there are male hypochondriacs, but women seem to rule this category.
Even as we come to the fore, we are diminished.
Would I be banned for snarking “deservedly”? Asking for a friend.
Okay, ending snarky humor. I am concerned that the medical profession has yet to truly come to grips with the reality that women are physiologically different from men. I wonder how much “female anxiety” is really due to an organic problem that isn’t recognized as such because the physiology of women is not nearly as well understood as the physiology of men. Not long ago there was a rallying cry that “women are not just small men” but it seems to have petered out.
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A simple hypothesis to explain the article is that men are much less prone to complain about personal matters.
I know it is an anecdote but I had a patient referred one time by a GP. He had been checking the wife's blood pressure and she told him her husband, who had driven her to the appointment, did not feel well and could the doctor take a look at him ?
He had a perforated ulcer. They are usually fatal in 12 hours.
I am concerned that the medical profession has yet to truly come to grips with the reality that women are physiologically different from men.
No, what is happening is that men are being considered as defective women. I have watched the feminization of Medicine for 20 years. Sixty percent of medical students are now female. Gross Anatomy is no longer taught by dissection. Microscopes are no longer used by medical students. They look at photo slides on laptops.
There are no labs. Microbiology is ignored.
Feelings are now a bigger part of medical education. To some degree that is appropriate but I have had women faculty ask me to instruct their students in surface anatomy because they don't remember any.
We used to wonder of what use were anatomy questions like "What structures would be penetrated by a knife wound 6 inches deep into the left 6th rib space in the mid clavicular line ?"
That was before CT scans made that important.
Michael K:
There was an episode of Law & Order where the victim of a beat down died in a vet hospital he wandered into. The cops and CSU were amazed when the vet, who hadn't treated a human before, gave them the precise details of the vic's injuries. Which broken bones, etc. He said he had x-ray hands because he has to treat patients who can't tell him what's wrong.
I'm also annoyed by the notion that we're in some special "anxious times."
The MSM was trying to sell the notion that the nation was fearful or anxious or something because of the fake bombs. I was at a party Friday night and nobody, absolutely nobody, was talking about that. People were talking about Megan Kelly getting fired for having an opinion, which she is paid for, but not one word about the mailing of pretend bombs. And I'm not talking Trump supporters. At least half the people there were Democrats. Yes, here in the hinterlands it is possible for Republicans and Democrats to socialize with each other.
He said he had x-ray hands because he has to treat patients who can't tell him what's wrong.
We often refer to "taking a veterinary history," when some one can' talk or doesn't make sense.
Like most former or current academics, AA seems to think the NY Times is still a viable Liberal Bible? Could be if you believe in "make believe" opinions by the NY Times' authors.
Love "Maybees" comment of the NY Times - 10/28/18, 11:59 AM - ".....I suspect the NYTs .....is written for those who have everything yet crave the feeling of unhappiness....."
"As for the NYT and their anxious times, perhaps they’re upset that their attempts to destroy Trump aren’t working and he’s more popular now than Obama was at this point in his first term. They keep doublng down on their TDS and it just isn’t working. They’re stuck on stupid. That has to be upsettng."
After the election of 1860, reportedly, the Democrats went nuts. Call it Lincoln Derangement Syndrome. If only they'd known about CBD oil. No anxiety —> no secession —> no war.
Even as we come to the fore, we are diminished.
Lord knows, the trouble retired college professors with large pensions have seen!
I shed a tear over your suffering, prof. Only one.
It's time for you to drop the feminist bullshit, Ann, and admit it was all a crock of shit. Why doesn't this bullshitting embarass you?
I really like your blog and refer people to it for your legal analysis. First rate legal mind. But, this bullshit whining of yours is pathetic and laughable, and I tell people that when I refer them to you.
We all have our faults.
In the South at least "fix" is used as a verb, as in Dylan's "I feel like I'm fixin' to die." Or is this a different derivation entirely?
Love "Maybees" comment of the NY Times - 10/28/18, 11:59 AM - ".....I suspect the NYTs .....is written for those who have everything yet crave the feeling of unhappiness....."
I do, too. A few years ago there was some discussion of how the English Royal Family was adopting speech patterns of the underclass. It was a sort of pretend classlessness. The Princess Di thing may have started it.
"Wow! It takes the NYT an incredibly long time to answer its question 'Why Is CBD Everywhere?'"
I first read that as "Why is CBF everywhere?". And I thought, everywhere? Wut? Far from being "everywhere", seems to me Christine Blasey Ford was disappeared from public attention quicker than be damned, not a pip, not a squeak remaining.
Oh. CBD. Never mind.
As of 2018 in the United States, Food and Drug Administration approval of cannabidiol (CBD) as a prescription drug called Epidiolex for medical uses has been limited to two rare forms of childhood epilepsy, to which treatment most children are strongly opposed.
BTW, I know Prof. Althouse thinks that feelings are more important than science, but statistical research has demonstrated the falsity of the claims that women are undertreated or undermedicated.
i hate to sound like a 'back in our days' guy, but... in re "anxious times."
Back in Our Days, a third of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command bombers (about a thousand or so) were on 15 minute alert; fueled, loaded with H-bombs, and waiting at the end of the runways. About 25 were ALREADY IN THE AIR! Over a thousand Minuteman ICBM's were 55 Seconds away from launch. That's not counting the Navy's Polaris missiles or our tactical nukes; to say Nothing of the Russian forces, which were about as big and about as ready to go.
The End Of The World was LITERALLY 20 minutes away... For 20 years.
Those were "anxious times." And you know what we did? We went to work or we went to school
sean said...
BTW, I know Prof. Althouse thinks that feelings are more important than science, but statistical research has demonstrated the falsity of the claims that women are undertreated or undermedicated.
I think if you re-read this, you'll see that she didn't make the claim and (in my reading of her) seems to be a bit skeptical of it.
CBD isn't the Central Business District? That's how I read it.
Speaking of "fix," I have a cycling buddy who seems to have a fixation on the Althouse blog. I wonder if CBD oil would fix his fixation. Or would it put him in a legal fix? I don't think he suffers from epileptic seizures. Just Althouse Fixation Syndrome.
The stereotype of women I learned from men when I was growing up was that no matter what women have, they find something to bitch about.
Althouse is the proof that that stereotype is true.
Wealthy family. Never did a day of real labor in her life. Lifelong cushy state job that required very little work. Golden pension and retirement benefits. And, in retirement, she's receiving public attention.
Is she expressing gratitude for this blessed life? No, she's still bitching! The stereotype is true!
No matter what Althouse has, she finds a way to bitch that she's being treated unfairly.
I wonder what would the Cold War have been like with US culture in its present state, with modern social media. We may find out.
In the present day we still have a nuclear standoff, not two-way but, perhaps, three way, with China. It is not well understood just what China has for a nuclear arsenal, they may be more impenetrable than the Soviet Union in that way.
And the number of weapons currently maintained, though smaller, is surely still sufficient to the task of destroying civilization in the target countries along with the bulk of their populations.
He wears a cashmere apron when mountain biking. Really, dude could use a little CBD oil.
Maybe he should ride a fixed-gear bike.
Shouting Thomas wrote: "The stereotype of women I learned from men when I was growing up..."
Does this mean you identify as a woman, and we should take the bitching about Ann as illustrative?
Does this mean you identify as a woman, and we should take the bitching about Ann as illustrative?
Well, that's a funny comeback and I give you credit for that.
But, no, it means that Althouse should by all rights be thanking God every day for the blessings showered upon her instead of finding something to bitch about.
This constant bitching about nothing is disgraceful for any person who's lived such a blessed life.
I remember DMSO. It was supposed to cure all your ills.
There is always some idiot in the chattering classes that has found a new placebo!!
Are you safe?
Not safe from violent, unapproved ideas.
Are you clothed?
Not right at this moment, no.
Do you have food in your belly?
There's food ON my belly.
Do you have shelter?
Gimme Shelter (Tom Jones version).
Then you are ok.
Thanks, I was worried about that!
David Begley said...
Jim, “Appreciate what you have. The left is always unhappy. And no amount of change ever makes a difference.”
St. Ignatius Loyola was a big advocate of gratitude. He was the youngest of 14 or 15 children. His leg was broken in a war by a French cannonball. His leg had to be rebroken and reset without anesthesia. He then went on to create the greatest and oldest enterprise in the world.
*********************
Hmmmm....I'd say the oldest enterprise in the world is the one Loyola was a member of, the Roman Catholic Church.
Blogger buwaya said...
I wonder what would the Cold War have been like with US culture in its present state, with modern social media. We may find out.
Imagine President Wallace and that should help. That was Obama.
In 1945 and after, the World War II guys were coning back and they knew real war, A cousin of mine, who just died a year or two ago, told me that the frostbite from the Battle of the Bulge left his feet painful until he died at 87.
They are gone and the Vietnam generation; That is the guys who went, are getting old.
What is left ? Howard.
Find the "fix" in Eileen Aroon
(Not Safe For Dylan Haters)
Only 2-3 years late to the party NYT.....
About these 'anxious times' - I can't escape mention of the no matter where I go. I ordered soapmaking supplies last week - new fragrance oils are touted as 'the antidote to these trying times." Recipes are now 'soothing comfort during these anxious years'.
The MEDIA shares some responsibility for this and goddammit, can marketers leave politics out of buying craft supplies for fuck's sake? I'd love to see someone sue a newspaper or media outlet for causing such mental stress. I mean if some guy can lose his job because he grabbed an ass cheek in public 20 years ago how does the media get away with this incessant drumbeat of "YOU SHOULD BE VERY ANXIOUS ARE YOU NOT ANXIOUS".
Well, this is certainly a great read so far! I don't think I've ever seen such a collection of interesting, insightful - a few even brilliant - comments on ANY site before, on ANY subject.
BUT in the end, I go with the simple "it's all bullshit remark - certainly it's the perfect descriptor of where the NYT has taken itself in these oh, so 'anxious' times. But as far as TDS in the media goes, I think they are tied, if not nosed-out a bit, by WAPO. I say so only because I think WAPO scores slightly ahead in the all import 'MAUDLIN' category. Damn close race (to the bottom), though, and a real laff to follow!
Hillary lost = anxious times.
"Carol said...
Laudanum.
I would love me some of that.
I spent $60 for an ounce of CBD oil and it didn't do anything. Of course, it was a "sleep" formula not a "pain" formula. So I'm supposed to keep spending til I find something that works."
Carol,
Try a coil spring chair, it helps over time. This is usually a lawn chair and people do not sit in them routinely so this is why people don't realize how a coil-spring chair helps with pain. But, you see, it moves slightly as you shift your weight so instead of driving your bones together it shakes your muscles a little bit. I don't say at all that it gets rid of established pain but it helps keep things from getting worse. Someday someone is going to figure out how to market it for that and make a million.
On topic
For anxious times in life, I recommend a steady reduction in MSM news intake until subject reports manageable concern rather than hysterical anxiety necessitating intake of more drugs beyond the MSM ones in use already.
Focus on how your life is right this very moment. Are you safe? Are you clothed? Do you have food in your belly? Do you have shelter? Then you are ok.
I see your point more clearly today MayBee, than I might have a week ago.
After four hours of anesthesia, I was very happy to wake up. My fiancé said I had a huge smile on my face despite my obvious discomfort.
It is so easy to get caught up in the bullshit that we forget that the purpose of life is to live and to fight the good fight (e.g., the Kavanaugh confirmation),.
Not all fights are so meaningful. It matters nothing to me that Chuck is a Trump hater (although I tend to agree otherwise with his political positions) or that Inga is a useful idiot or the usual suspects (Cookie, Howard, r/v, Freder) hate America or that Ritmo is mentally ill.
I like this site, but I don't have much motivation for fighting the fools. It's like peeing in the wind.
Have any posters here had the priviledge of speaking with anyone that witnessed WWII? I have - one man has passed away but the mother of a dear friend is still with us. She was a teenage girl living in Coventry during Hitler's bombing of the MidLands. Anxiety? Can you imagine the response here in the US if a school tennis court was commandeered for an anti-aircraft gun? Or if we REALLY had to stay indoors and keep the lights off all night? Seriously - every time I meet this woman (now in her mid 90s) and can't help but thinking "Damn that is classic British fortitude".
Hillary lost = anxious times.
That villain Trump usurped the throne from its rightful heir, thus forfeiting the Mandate of Heaven. The People plead in vain for the Balance of the Universe to be restored. Until that day, we're all screwed, blued, and tattooed.
I have relatives who actually believe this.
Fernandistein said...
Hahahahaha!
Francisco D said...
I'm so glad you are well.
Luke Lea said "In the South at least "fix" is used as a verb, as in Dylan's "I feel like I'm fixin' to die." Or is this a different derivation entirely?”
That’s in the OED for “fix,” the verb: "To intend; to arrange, get ready, make preparations, for or to do something."
1854–5 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) iv. 136 Aunt Lizy is just fixing to go to church….
1907 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 22 Aug. 6 What a pretty night! The moon is fixing to shine!
1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 32 I meet..schoolgirls..so painted up they look as if they was fixin'..to be bad.
ALP asks: Have any posters here had the priviledge of speaking with anyone that witnessed WWII?
My MIL grew up in southern Germany during the war. She seems relatively unaffected by it. She's more influenced by her grandmother, who was a harridan, and her brother, who was a crook.
She married an American and moved to Dover, Del., where they raised three kids without the help of either family.
I'd say they had a hell of a lot more anxiety that I have, and I lived through Obama and Jimmy Carter.
Pointless people with pointless lives trying to make up something is dramatic in their padded, pandered, pathetic existence. You are not a Black male at College who will probably be thrown out and have your life ruined if you make the mistake of having sex (or even just be alone) with any white gurl.
Lets get it correct, these "Anxious People" have NO problems, (apart from their imaginary "friends").
Whatever it is it's not here.
Manufactured anxiety = scare tactics = fearmongering.
I was anxious during the Cuba missle crisis. I was a kid who watched too much TV. Plus I lived closer to ground zero.
This doesn't seem anything like that.
I see CBD, and I think Christian Book Distributors, which is like an Amazon of Christian, homeschooling, and classic books.
There's always some new snake oil.
"It's the era of women, and it's the era of anxiety."
The question remains, are women equal or special?
The NYT's business model is to scare people into reading the stories. It's pretty rich of them to identify the present as "anxious times".
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Honest to god, there is no one in my personal orbit - friends, family, coworkers, etc. - that I would describe as anxious. I suppose there might be some in the blogosphere, but it seems unfair to make that judgement based on the sorts of things people post in comments and such.
Who are these overly sensitive creatures?
I think a marijuana derivative to calm the nerves is perfectly suited to those who think Trump is the second coming of Hitler, but are too lazy or stupid to flee the country before the camps get built, the rail lines get laid, and the borders get closed.
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Why is CBD Everywhere?
Me: Why the upsurge of interest in the Commerce Business Daily, of all things?!
Same here except Central Business District, a term I learned in Fayetteville NC, and I'm like What? We don't even call it that here, is "Downtown" too complicated all of a sudden? And what's going on with it anyway?"
"those who have everything yet crave the feeling of unhappiness....
Because They know they didn't create or earn any of it
Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars, and babies are conceived on Earth. Setting men and women at each other's throats only exacerbated the popular belief. Psychoactive drugs dampen the cognitive dissonance forced by chauvinist ideologies.
"It's the era of women, and it's the era of anxiety."
The Future Is Female Anxiety
And now I have to wonder if it's sexist to embrace the theory that the "defining sociological condition" of our time is "anxiety." It's the era of women, and it's the era of anxiety.
Replace "anxiety" with "hysteria" and you'd be more accurate. Dead on in fact.
CBD has little or no THC, so it's not supposed to get you high.
When I was in college, Neville Shute's novel "On the Beach" came out. It scared the shit out of me.
I had read some of his other novels and he had two that were predictions of the future. One, "No Highway," predicted that new airliners would crash because of metal fatigue. A year later, the Comets began to crash. It was metal fatigue.
In the 1930s, he wrote a novel called "Ordeal" which predicted the Blitz and described it before the war began.
This was his third novel predicting some event and the other two had become true.
Nothing has bothered me since except the Cuban MissileCrisis and it was also real.
Upper-middle-class American white women, the core Times demographic, are the freest, most prosperous women in human history, and also the most nervous, anxious, and rattled.
And quit having children precisely when it became the safest time in history to do so.
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CBD-- it's The Fixer Elixir!
When I was in college, Neville Shute's novel "On the Beach" came out. It scared the shit out of me.
Me too...I read it in high school and I lived on an air base that was a first strike target. It was an A-10 base in the U.K during the early 80's. Watching the airmen run around in MOPP gear during drills was both funny and scary at the same time.
"CBD has little or no THC, so it's not supposed to get you high."
It's not supposed to have any. I have coworkers that use it and we have to take random drug tests. I was using a bottle of CBD vape juice that my sister gave me and I passed a test. I didn't use the vape juice because I expected any benefit, I didn't want it to go to waste, it was blueberry flavored and tasted pretty good.
Sex, drugs, and perception.
They're sucking it in, and hollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllding it.
Listen, you want to know why women are anxious? Because their genes know that Winter is almost here, and they haven't done any canning.
Don't believe me? Do some canning.
"Why is CBD everywhere?"
oh FFS! Why is CPL and TDS everywhere?
I have used it in the past for muscle soreness. Works a treat.
I have tried it. It's like paying $10 for an Advil.
Women like to buy soaps and creams and candles and candies and geegaws. It's mostly harmless feminine pleasure. All the better if they feel they're good and hip and progressive by doing it, if they're Times readers. This is why the Times' furious takedown of Gwenyth Paltrow's geegaw company, Goop, signalled the final takeover of the paper by militant identity politics Maoists: now the target consumers of the Times are to be mocked and re-educated, not flattered. Who knows? Maybe being kicked around for the sins of "privilege" really does reduce their anxiety. The experience will still cost too much for the average consumer, so being mocked and re-educated can only be a status symbol until cheap knockoffs appear at the Marshalls. Gummy CBD is just the next Argan oil. Remaindered in January.
"As an alternative health regimen, CBD holds particular appeal to women ..."
Umm, with the possible exception of prostate remedies and products claiming to enhance male sexual performance, are there any "alternative health regimens" that are not mostly bought by women?
Hmmmm....
The consensus seems to be that a significant fraction of women are situated on the quivering rim of batshit crazy. Who knew? Let's give 'em the vote and see what happens, shall we?
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