This seems more like mild or seasonal depression to me, but perhaps you’re right! Chronic depression is often difficult to change, as any “positive” change can lead to exhaustion again
Thanks for speaking the truth!! It took me way too long to understand this about my Israeli “friends”, they were protesting Netanyahu as a way to stay Zionist
This aesthetic was legitimated by musicology, for instance by Karl Straube or Friedrich Blume. Expressive features such as portamento, rubato, or "too much" individuality, could all be linked to decadent Romanticism, which implied Jewishness.
However, the St. Matthew Passion recording from 1941 by the St. Thomas Choir and Günther Ramin, a kind of state propaganda, is actually one of the first examples of the "Neue Sachlichkeit" in Bach performance, according to Martin Elste.
Sorry for the late answer, but I think you were absolutely right. It's a complex and difficult topic! In classical music history, one is usually taught that the move towards a more restrained and "objective" aesthetic after WW2 was a way to distance oneself from the pathos of the Nazi regime.
Nasrallah died to liberate Palestine. «Nasrallah’s stature as a tactical and strategic thinker, as the most prominent and trusted leader of the Axis of Resistance, and as a personality capable of inspiring and reassuring supporters even in the worst of times, cannot be overstated.» - Abu Abunimah
Israel's shock and awe in Lebanon will not end the resistance to Zionism.
what is the best way to understand/conceptualise chronic depression?
I just made a donation to Lana’s important fundraiser. I would be happy if anyone could match it!
- Orlando Patterson, Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in two American Centuries, 1998
"How could Christianity, which worships a swarthy-skinned Semite from Palestine who preached a doctrine of love and fellowship, end up as a sacrificial cult that legitimized and celebrated the genocidal torturing and burning alive of helpless males from a wretchedly exploited ex-slave minority?"