Critical relativism doesn’t really trade in pithy saws, except for the one Kurt Vonnegut coined in 1968: “A sane person in an insane society must appear insane.”
06 June 2024, The Tablet
Asylum
Patients cleared land and erected an elaborate campus, including a mansion for the superintendent
Staff and inmates at Crownsville Hospital in January 1932
photo: Wikimedia Commons
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