#ciszanocna

[unrealbejbi]

Jest noc, a ja dalej nie śpię

on też nie pisze.

Chyba już przestałam na to czekać.

chyba...

[dirtyplaya]

Jeszcze #ciszawyborcza a u mnie już #ciszanocna #ciach 🍻 #dark #lager #instabeer #browar #jabłonowo #ujdzie #mamufakturapiwna #sikalne #beer #piwo #cerveza #beerstagram #vsco #beerlabelscollection #wiecejtagowniepamietam https://www.instagram.com/p/BpMi_tEAWP_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=stxzpamnp63z

[drzymorda]

[drzymorda]

#3 Takie zycie, coz zrobic, nie mam ochoty na nic

[ciszanocna]

Many studies have proved that sham-treatment rituals can do as well as drugs and surgery in relieving symptoms of many common and debilitating ailments. A 2002 study found that sham knee surgery involving an incision but nothing else did as much to relieve arthritis as the standard real procedure, and a 2009 study found that the same was true of a common back operation for osteoporosis. A 2008 British Medical Journal study by Kaptchuk and several colleagues showed that patients receiving sham treatment for irritable bowel syndrome—which is one of the 10 disorders that most frequently bring patients to doctors and which has been estimated to cost the U.S. up to $30 billion a year—did as well as patients typically do on the standard drug for the disorder. A 2001 study showed that in patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease, a condition marked by the brain’s diminished ability to produce dopamine, a placebo treatment caused dopamine production to surge. A German Medical Association study this year found that 59 percent of patients with stomach discomfort were helped by sham treatments.

The Triumph of New-Age Medicine - Magazine - The Atlantic

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While there have always been some odd characters attracted to power, it seems we’re dealing with a whole new category of crazy, something we’ve never encountered at the highest levels of our politics before. This year we had a GOP figure candidate rise to the top of some polls by claiming that Obama was born in Kenya. He was replaced briefly by someone who has accused the President of trying to set up mandatory, Communist-style re-education camps for youth. She’s been replaced by a guy who calls Social Security a giant fraud. Something has changed. Facts are elitist. Credibility is evolving into a liability and crazy has become a tactic. Where is this coming from?

Let's Talk About Death - NYTimes.com

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Were slaves actually planning a vast insurrection? Or was the conspiracy scare merely the manifestation of white paranoia? It is impossible to know for sure. The nature of conspiracies is such that proof rests in incomplete and secret conversations about a future action that never took place. There is, however, reason to be skeptical. Given the fact that these statements were produced by torture, it is more likely that these confessions reflected slaveholders’ fears, not slaves’ intentions. Moreover, in the history of slavery in the Americas, slaveholders frequently charged slave rebels with committing sexual assaults, but very few instances of rape can be documented.

Rumors of Revolt - NYTimes.com

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If Reich’s conviction that humanity could fornicate its way to freedom was shared by the erotic vanguardists of previous centuries, he did come up with a new apparatus for the purpose: a machine to trap the potent, healing force of the orgasm. His orgone-energy accumulator, or orgone box, as it became known, resembled a wooden telephone booth lined with metal sheeting and steel wool. “Reich considered his orgone energy accumulator an almost magical device that could improve its users’ ‘orgastic potency’ and by extension their general, and above all, mental health,” Turner writes. Reich claimed that his box intensified these “mysterious currents” that “could not only help dissolve repressions but treat cancer, radiation sickness, and a host of minor ailments.” Like the celestial bed, the orgone box acquired a celebrity following: J. D. Salinger, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Saul Bellow, and Norman Mailer were all devotees. (Mailer kept a small collection of orgone accumulators in his barn in Connecticut; “they were beautifully finished, and there was a big one that opened like an Easter egg,” a friend of his told Turner. “He climbed inside and closed the top.”) James Baldwin wrote that “the discovery of the orgasm—or rather, the orgone box—in retrospect seems the least mad of the formulas that came to hand” at the time. Reich had his detractors, notably Albert Einstein, who, after two weeks of tests on the box, declared it useless. (Reich cultivated a corresponding beef with Einstein’s work: he “came to believe that atomic energy, the fear of which clouded the American psyche in the 1950s, aggravated the orgone energy that he had discovered,” Turner writes, “which explained, in his view, why not everyone who was prescribed his box could be cured.”) Because of Reich’s outspoken Marxism and past Communist ties, the U.S. government placed him under surveillance soon after his arrival in the country; his F.B.I. file eventually grew to seven hundred and eighty-nine pages. In 1954, after an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration, a court ruled that Reich could no longer rent or sell his orgone boxes. When he refused to comply with the order, he was sentenced to two years in jail. Reich died of a heart attack in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in 1957, at the age of sixty. By then, he had succumbed to paranoid delusions that the world was under attack by U.F.O.s.

Wilhelm Reich, Victorians, and Sexual Revolutions : The New Yorker