Culture and Society
I take the test, grade myself strictly, and add up the points. The result is that I’m likely an alcoholic and should seek treatment as soon as possible. I take the test again and grade myself more forgivingly, because forgiveness is a virtue.
When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I’m rich and I complain about inequality they say I’m a hypocrite. I’m beginning to think they just don’t want to talk about inequality.
Featuring John Taylor Gatto, Olga García Echeverría, Katy Butler, and more.
This strange country of cancer, it turns out, is the true democracy — one more real than the nation that lies outside these walls and more authentic than the lofty statements of politicians; a democracy more incontrovertible than platitudes or aspiration.
In the country of cancer everyone is simultaneously a have and a have-not. In this land no citizens are protected by property, job description, prestige, and pretensions; they are not even protected by their prejudices. Neither money nor education, greed nor ambition, can alter the facts. You are all simply cancer citizens, bargaining for more life.
The cancer he wanted to cut out of my back somehow disappeared in the month since the b…
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
If you are going to deal with the issue of health in the modern world, you are going to have to deal with much absurdity.
Andrew Coates On Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System
It’s appalling that one person’s illness would be an opportunity for another to make money. The care of human beings should not be a commodity.
In those cold rooms with the blue plastic chairs, sometimes the human condition is an old Tex…
