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...during these moments, within the mostly disjointed and angst-ridden “Cassadaga,” that flashes of simple honesty become insights into the album’s main theme: Oberst’s personal longing for love in a world of uncertainty and pain. In the song “Make a Plan to Love Me,” he sings, “Life is too short / To be a fool / I don’t owe you that / Do what you feel / Whatever is cool / But I just have to ask / Will you make...
...South Africa to Chicago have begun to recognize that extreme self-centeredness is the forest in these stories, and all the other things-- guns, games, lyrics, pornography--are just trees. To list the traits of the narcissist is enough to prove the point: grandiosity, numbness to the needs and pain of others, emotional isolation, resentment and envy...
...words and images the night of April 18 that they and everyone else had a chance to see all the ego, the anger, the desire to get even with the "rich brats" with their trust funds and gold necklaces and Mercedes. "You have never felt a single ounce of pain in your whole lives...
...minds of the people who are capable of doing these things - and, by extension, in all our minds. What is it that makes individual members of a usually empathetic species turn rogue? How does one of our most primal faculties - the ability to understand that things that cause me pain or fear would do the same to you and that I therefore ought not do them - get so completely shut down? Is empathy optional, at least in some people, and if so, how does that emotional decoupling take place? More important, if we can figure out that part...
...broader economic damage. Real estate is a key - an industry in China that has deep political ties, particularly at the local and provincial level. For several years now, a lot of people have been saying that property is a bubble; that a crackdown is coming; and that widespread economic pain would ensue when it did. It it hasn't' happened yet, but if it does, you'll know it. In the first part of the '90s, when China slowed sharply, few people in the outside world cared much. That is not true now. A hard landing this time will...