The Post-Totalitarian Stress Disorder

Ringrazio 1972 per aver segnalato la riflessione di Arthur Chrenkoff su «una vera e propria malattia dello spirito che chi ha sempre assaporato la libertà fatica a comprendere».

«For the Westerners, the PTSD is a difficult condition to understand. We take so many things for granted - from comedians being able to joke about the President, to the assumption that the next government employee we encounter will not be expecting a bribe from us - that we are quite ill equipped to fully comprehend what life under a totalitarian system must really be like, much less what mental and spiritual legacy its victims have to labor under long after the statues of the Leader are pulled down». Leggi tutto