ChamanyhiBC Radio 4 is just a short series about the Virginia Woolf writer, until Celebrate Centensary In his novel Mrs. Dallowayay. According to the Blurb of Publicity, the purpose of the three changes in Virginia Woolf is to investigate his “say in a modern human condition than a medical condition.
Because three episodes are immediately following the program today, I caught two minutes before, before flinching, and turned off. The reason? Just a few days ago, I read a diary entry Woolf written in 1915, presented to recognize that he was “very surprised that it scares me.
It is a remembrance of meeting a group of people who are restrictive, which may be residents of a famous institution called Norsansfield Hospital. “We met and had to go through a long line of imbeciles,” Woolf’s letter. “The first one is a tall man, the more enough to look twice, but no more; the second shadowy bad line is laughing … it’s completely killed.”
That passage comes in a third way through a good new book titled Nice lifetightly how we learn to defy wrongs. Playwright and director director Stephen Unwin, its story came from Greeks and Romans until the 21st century. Most of these are a history of misunderstanding, hatred and suffering in the mistreatment experienced by millions of millions of people. But on one side because Unwin has a child with a learning disability – 28-year-old Joey, he says “All I have to do”
A sign of ignorance without spending some of the books that run against is the fact that this best original job, published in early June, not analyzed by a mainstream publication. In the context of attitudes he wrote, may not be very surprising – but there too, the book accurately felt the disposal. Then, followed the same non-rational logic as all of the high profile discussions and debates about institutional racism and empire, and demanded a similar process of counting.
In this subject, there is a mountain question to ask. Some of the language still exist: “Imberiles”, “Moron”, “Cretins”, “Idiots”. How many of us learned about the first official asylum for idiots – the Royal Earlswood – built in the “widespread mental worst – and increasingly healing … and increasingly violence … and increased mortality rate”? However, many young people study history, their syllabus covers the Lack of mental mental in 1913forming the idea that people collected “idiots” and “imbeciles” (and all the victims of the councils were given to people from their families by force? Why is the US record Institutional Cruely and Cod-Psychology worse than UK?
There is another part of the same story, centered on a killed by political politicians and cultural numbers Who believed that people who were able to learn – and disabled people in general – not only carved and evil, an idea stated in the bad science of eugenics. They attach the main brute Winston ChurchillDH Lawrence (who has visions of Herding Dangers Into “A Lethal Chamber As Big As The Crystal Palace”), and lots of people thought of AS progressives: Bertrand Russell, HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw, the One-Time Labor Party Chair Harold Laski, and the Trailblazing Intellectuals Sidney and Beatrice Webb.
Their CSO of pure and strong genes can be lost in the Nazi defeat, but we do not need to be young to ourselves that everyday showing ideas do not get annoyed. Ours is the age of such scandals as the one that blasts in 2011 in Winterbourne watchThe “evaluation and treatment unit” in Gloucestershire, where people with learning disabilities left in the icy weather, with eyes pouring their eyes and given cold rain as a punishment.
Year 2013 Saw the death of a NHS unit Connor SparrowhawkThe autistic and learning-disabled young man whose life is designed by the storm in a deep political game titled Laughing babyBased on a good powerful book written by Sarawhagk’s mother, Sara Ryan. Also the main life and death of it and its death, emphasized the fact that trust in health that operates unit is found to have Invalid checked The “unexpected” death of more than 1,000 people with learning disabilities or mental health issues.
Today, about 2,000 discenses of learning and autistic people Lock Completely inappropriate and frequent diseases, usually under terms of mental health legislation. only 5% of the learning disabled people considered employed. Six out of 10 today die before the age of 65compared to one by one of 10 for people from most populations.
But it is also a time to grow self-esteem, which can begin to change inevitable. A little example: this year Glastonury, I have led a discussion about cuts of disability benefits threatened by Laski political heirs and on webbs. Onstage speakers include Ady Roy, a disabled activist related to My life is my choiceA great organization that refers to a world “where people with learning disabilities are treated without prejudice and have a choice and control of their own life”. He was inspired, but it was good to come to a point where he did perfectly uncontrollable.
It may be a small melodramatic, but it is also true: such people, and allies like storms, are in the dismissal of man. Most other others may not have the same ideal ideas such as Woolf, Lawrence, Keynes and all the rest, but their left and do not know in a similar awful maintenance. That’s only that promoting a clear political fact that we all need to appreciate as a matter of fact: that the present and future varies when we finally understand only.
