Eurozine - Bathroom tales - Slavenka Drakulic How we mistook normality for par... - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Jan 08
  

  Frank Colcord

  Philosophy BookClub

• 16 Oct 07
  

  only in certain moments of weakness my belief in cosmetics, the market, advertising, capitalism, the West, democracy, human rights, etc., undergoes a crisis – something every religious person will understand using them.

  europe politics writing sdrakulic

• 15 Oct 07
  

  cshirky

  The normality that eastern European countries faced after the collapse of communism and, later, after entering the EU, was something rather different than what they had expected.
  

  europe communism market romania

• 10 Oct 07
  

  juremes sss
  • The dearth of toilet paper may not have been the sole reason for the collapse of communism, but it's an apt metaphor for a regime unable to fulfil its subjects' basic needs. Although Slavenka Drakulic's bathroom is better stocked these days, she's still prone to doubt: was the normality she and her fellow eastern Europeans longed for just another false paradise?

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