[lbo-talk] Ehrenreich on depression

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Colin Brace" <cb at lim.nl>
>
>How we learned to stop having fun
>
>Barbara Ehrenreich
>Monday April 2, 2007
>Guardian
>
>Beginning in England in the 17th century, the European world was
>stricken by what looks, in today's terms, like an epidemic of
>depression.

I blame the clothes.  On TV the other night I happened to catch a bit of 
"Cromwell" (1970), with Richard Harris chewing the scenery in the title 
role, ably supported, as one reviewer notes, by "Alec Guinness' waspish King 
Charles I appearing, on occasion, as if he were channeling Oscar Wilde."  My 
main takeaway was that the 17th century was Western Civ's absolute low point 
for fashion.  Who wouldn't be depressed dressed in an outfit like that 
illustrated in the Dutch Masters Cigars logo?  Wearing shapeless black 
clothing with a white collar that looks like a baby's bib, topped off by the 
ugliest hat ever to appear on a human head, would make anyone suicidal.  
<http://www.altadisusa.com/cigar/dutchmasters.asp>

Carl

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