Russ Emerson | October 10, 2003
Eiland’s Theory of Compensatory Misery: As human society gradually solves the problems of basic survival and reduces the amount of other miseries rooted in the reality of the human condition, the fringe elements of that society feel an increasingly strong compulsion to become obsessively angry about ever more trivial causes to recapture the sense that […]
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Russ Emerson | October 10, 2003
According to the International Red Cross, the prisoners at Guantanamo aren’t happy: Wrapping up a two-month visit to the Cuban base, the organization — the only independent group with access to the approximately 650 detainees — said it found “a worrying deterioration” in mental health among many prisoners. It blamed their being held indefinitely without […]
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