Elite Capture

What interests me about the book isn’t just the thesis. It’s that, as he points out, people have seen this and written about it before. Decades ago. The other thing is the arguments he describes in detail, I didn’t know all of the people he discusses. And chronology gets clarified since he is looking globally. … More Elite Capture

Children of narcissistic parents

Someone said: “Часто дети нарциссических родителей вырастают созависимыми. И потом слушаются каждого приказа нарциссов-родителей, обслуживают их, как слуги, притом, что родители здоровы в целом, стараясь, выслужившись, получить любовь, и руководимые ощущением токсического стыда.” Axé.

Playing Fado

So a simple fado in A has four chords: Dm, A, A7, and C. You get the melancholy from the minor chord and the dissonance from the 7th, but you are really relying a lot on the tonic and the C which is what: subdominant? I think of it as a “fourth” but that is … More Playing Fado