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A V Crappy Christmas Imagining Freedom

    • Philosophy

Christmas is supposed to be a celebration of the birth of a man who shocked his contemporaries by associating with the unclean and the outcasts. But for me – and probably many other people, Christmas 2021 turned out to be a time of feeling like an outcast.
Sources
David Katz in New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html
Interesting summary about the work of Professor Mattias Desmet, however please note that he is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, not Psychiatry, as the article incorrectly states:
https://thecovidworld.com/mattias-desmet-professor-of-clinical-psychiatry-who-studied-the-psychology-of-totalitarianism-this-is-how-we-win/
Illustration by Alexandra Koch / 1935 at https://pixabay.com/illustrations/santa-claus-coronavirus-quarantine-5842544/

Christmas is supposed to be a celebration of the birth of a man who shocked his contemporaries by associating with the unclean and the outcasts. But for me – and probably many other people, Christmas 2021 turned out to be a time of feeling like an outcast.
Sources
David Katz in New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html
Interesting summary about the work of Professor Mattias Desmet, however please note that he is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, not Psychiatry, as the article incorrectly states:
https://thecovidworld.com/mattias-desmet-professor-of-clinical-psychiatry-who-studied-the-psychology-of-totalitarianism-this-is-how-we-win/
Illustration by Alexandra Koch / 1935 at https://pixabay.com/illustrations/santa-claus-coronavirus-quarantine-5842544/

24 min