However, the minority of officers who tend towards panic and/or sadism must be ferreted out. A concerted effort to have social workers take over most interactions with the mentally ill, homeless and non-violent domestic disputes could, it is hoped, limit the number of disastrous encounters. Fo...
I wish to argue that Assadism is conservatism. It should be clear as day, but this argument should be elucidated. So what is conservatism? If we wish to define it narrowly: conservatism is the ideology of reaction to demands for egalitarianism. Historians of conservatism trace its progeny to...
Parks attacks the myth of Mary inThe Testament of the Virgin. In a word, his thesis consists in suggesting that this good virgin is not very catholic. It would be only a pious reproduction of the very first Queen of Heaven, the great goddess Isis,the mother goddess. Other authors have pr...
the Minor and Serious subscales from the Deviant Behaviour Variety scale; an adapted scale to measure deviant peer association; parts of the SD4 scale to measure “dark personality traits” of Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, Narcissism and Sadism; and also measures of anxiety, depression, and stress...
. Books such as 50 Shades of Grey fall into a category known as 'erotic romance', where the key word is 'romance'. Although there has to be plenty of fairly inventive sex - the sort of thing that would have had earlier generations reaching for the smelling salts - the story still has...
This sadism is largely ignored in academic studies of Bresson’s automatism. The most influential of these is Gilles Deleuze’s analysis inCinema 2: The Time-Image, which, tellingly, doesn’t directly cite any of Bresson’s own writings on the automaton. Highlighting the fragmented, elliptical ...