The Disappointed Idealist

...and how able we are to talk about it. There are people who live their entire lives traumatized by certain things and perpetually unable to talk about them. Some of these people are not even aware of what they are doing or why. They're just in this vicious circle perpetuating the problem and never really managing or even trying to solve it. Some can't talk about it. Forcing these people to talk about it can be met with massive resistance. I remember someone telling me after going to the shrink: "I didn't like him. He made me cry". No thought had ever crossed her mind that maybe he was on to something and that's why she was crying and that maybe she should investigate the issue further (if not with him with someone else or in another manner). Her instinct was that she didn't like him so she stopped seeing him and that was that. A massive flaw in today's society is that there are a lot of people out there that believe that crying or being emotion

A Brief History of the Tudor Age by Jasper Ridley My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is not a book about the Tudors. There is a brief summary of the dynasty and its history in the first chapter. But what this book does is basically study the Tudor age from the perspective of its people, their habits and their ordinary lives. As such, this will not be the most entertaining book you've ever read, as it is basically a description of facts, rather than a description of actions. That being said, it is a very well researched book, very well written, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is building a documentation on the age, either for the purpose of writing about it or for the sake of simple knowledge. View all my reviews