Florence KingThinkers

The American is a people for whom stress is a status symbol. He cherishes the neurosis that he cultivates like the rarest of orchids, and does not want to be cured of it, for it makes him feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized.

The American is a people that stress makes feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung.

The Beloved symptom is a cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Democracy is the crude leading the crud.

Nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.