pandemic 2

WHY ARE WE TIRED ALL THE TIME?
I nonetheless think that a couple of critical points
should be made. First, limitations and constraints are
definitely not only internal: new strict rules of behavior
are being enforced, especially among the members
of the new “intellectual” class. Just think about the
Politically Correct constraints which form a special
domain of the “struggle against oneself,” against “incorrect”
temptations. Or take the following example of a
very external limitation: A couple of years ago, the filmmaker
Udi Aloni organized for the Palestinian group,
Jenin Freedom Theatre, to visit New York, and there was
a report on the visit in The New York Times which nearly
wasn’t published. Asked to name his most recent publication
for the story, Aloni cited a volume he had edited;
the problem was that the word “bi-national” was in the
book’s subtitle. Afraid of annoying the Israeli government,
the Times demanded that this word be deleted,
otherwise the report would not appear.
Or take another, more recent example: the British
Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie wrote a novel, Home
Fire, a successful modernized version of Antigone, and
was awarded several international prizes for it, among
them the Nelly Sachs Prize presented by the German
city of Dortmund. However, when it became known
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