Do you mean the Quail Run golf course, there ... in the desert? 8^) If so, I can't imagine any 2 people in that changing room there, have it so "bad". I feel kinda the same way about the ... [cough] ... militia members at Malheur. How bad can it be if these Yeehawdists have plenty of free time and $$ for gas, guns, and such to seize and squat? I know some people who have it "bad" and they certainly don't have that level of resources available to them. It reminds me of the Tea Party people, <stereotype> overweight with their lawn furniture and misspelled signs</stereotype>. What, precisely, do these people have to complain about?
But that makes the issue decidely _on_ topic, I think. From the DSM 5, which doesn't seem to contain "amok":
1. Cultural syndrome is a cluster or group of co-occurring, relatively invariant symptoms found in a specific cultural group, community, or context (e.g., ataque de nervios). The syndrome may or may not be recognized as an illness within the culture (e.g., it might be labeled in various ways), but such cultural patterns of distress and features of illness may nevertheless be recognizable by an outside observer. 2. Cultural idiom of distress is a linguistic term, phrase, or way of talking about suffering among individuals of a cultural group (e.g., similar ethnicity and religion) referring to shared concepts of pathology and ways of expressing, communicating, or naming es sential features of distress (e.g., kufiingisisa). An idiom of distress need not be associated with specific symptoms, syndromes, or perceived causes. It may be used to convey a wide range of discomfort, including everyday experiences, subclinical conditions, or suffering due to social circumstances rather than mental disorders. For example, most cultures have common bodily idioms of distress used to express a wide range of suf fering and concerns. 3. Cultural explanation or perceived cause is a label, attribution, or feature of an explanatory model that provides a culturally conceived etiology or cause for symptoms, illness, or distress (e.g., maladi moun). Causal explanations may be salient features of folk classi fications of disease used by laypersons or healers.
On 01/04/2016 10:23 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Slightly off-topic, but the mention of Malheur reminded me of a conversation in the men's changing room yesterday at Quail Run. The Big Short started the discussion, and one guy said ".. but you can't trust anybody anymore, and the government is worst of all! Why aren't most of the bankers who caused the Financial Crisis in jail?". This prompted another guy to say: "the only honest guys running for president are Trump and Sanders". Trump? Then "Hillary is in the banks pockets just like the rest." Well, true .. and why *aren't* the bankers in big trouble rather than continuing to be too big to fail and building even more risky financial stunts? As far as I know, only one banker is in jail and it is in Europe, not the US. And these weren't idiots, just folks angry at just how bad things are .. just like the Rancher's Rights at Malheur. Amok may be just what voters are about to be. It isn't populism, exactly .. its just plain mad and may have surprising "uprisings" as a result.
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