WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/76157/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Orwell</b></a></p><blockquote> In the queerest way, pleasure and disgust are linked together. The human body is beautiful: it is also repulsive and ridiculous, a fact which can be verified at any swimming pool. The sexual organs are objects of desire and also of loathing, so much so that in many languages, if not in all languages, their names are used as words of abuse. Meat is delicious, but a butcher’s shop makes one feel sick: and indeed all our food springs ultimately from dung and dead bodies, the two things which of all others seem to us the most horrible. A child, when it is past the infantile stage but still looking at the world with fresh eyes, is moved by horror almost as often as by wonder – horror of snot and spittle, of the dogs’ excrement on the pavement, the dying toad full of maggots, the sweaty smell of grown-ups, the hideousness of old men, with their bald heads and bulbous noses.<br> In his endless harping on disease, dirt and deformity, Swift is not actually inventing anything, he is merely leaving something out.</blockquote><p><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” <i>Polemic</i>, No. 5</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/76157/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/orwell-george/76157/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orwell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=georgeorwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>georgeorwell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=body" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>body</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disgust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disgust</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pleasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pleasure</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=revulsion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revulsion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wonder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wonder</span></a></p>
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A friend of mine from a facebook group just sent me this message. "i'm a federal employee. i think i just need to turn it all off for a while. "loyalty checks" have begun. this sounds absurd and it's real"
I will never forgive trumpelthinskin for what he is doing to people everywhere. He's a shit stain on the fabric of history. #trump #disgust
Disgust - A World Of No Beauty - 1997
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#Disgust #AWorldOfNoBeauty
I was feeling nauseous and suddenly something disgusting appeared in my feed, shit.
Abortion debt is now prohibitively high. And rising, as women are forced to travel to a sane state for her healthcare or to possibly save her own life. Have thorough disgust of this news. There should not BE abortion debt!!
“Loans and pawned belongings: abortion patients are increasingly going into debt.
Abortion debt is swelling. Providers and groups trying to fill the void created by bans are buckling under the weight. “
#AbortionDebt #WomensHealthcare #disgust
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/abortion-patient-debt
The Guardian · Loans and pawned belongings: abortion patients are increasingly going into debt
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#Disgust is a fascinating emotion to study in the context of #BehaviourChange - I was extremely lucky to be able to attend some lecture by the remarkable #ValCurtis (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2020/lshtm-pays-tribute-professor-val-curtis) when I was at #LSHTM who was one of the foremost researchers in the area and an absolute force of nature and powerhouse of righteous anger at the injustice in the world.
LSHTMLSHTM pays tribute to Professor Val Curtis | LSHTMProfessor Val Curtis was a world-class researcher and passionate advocate for safe water, sanitation and hygiene, leading a large and dynamic group of researchers.
New in Journal of Neuroscience! Giada Dirupo and an excellent team studied the role played by contextual information on the processing of facial expressions of #pain and #disgust, and associated neural responses.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/11/18/JNEUROSCI.2233-23.2024
#cimec #unige @unigenews @fmri @painscience @neuro @neuroscience @cognition @cogsci
Journal of Neuroscience · Parieto-Frontal networks mediate contextual influences in the appraisal of pain and disgust facial expressionsWe appraise other people’s emotions by combining multiple sources of information, including somatic facial/body reactions and the surrounding context. A wealthy literature revealed how people take into account contextual information in the interpretation of facial expressions, but the mechanisms mediating such influence still need to be duly investigated. Across two experiments, we mapped the neural representations of distinct (but comparably unpleasant) negative states, pain and disgust, as conveyed by naturalistic facial expressions or contextual sentences. Negative expressions led to shared activity in fusiform gyrus and superior temporal sulcus. Instead, pain contexts recruited supramarginal, postcentral and insular cortex, whereas disgust contexts triggered the temporo-parietal cortex and hippocampus/amygdala. When pairing the two sources of information together, we found higher likelihood of classifying an expression according to the sentence preceding it. Furthermore, networks specifically involved in processing contexts were re-enacted whenever a face followed said context. Finally, the perigenual medial prefrontal cortex showed increased activity for consistent ( vs . inconsistent) face-contexts pairings, suggesting that it integrates state-specific information from the two sources. Overall, our study reveals the heterogeneous nature of face-context information integration, which operates both according to a state-general and state-specific principle, with the latter mediated by the perigenual medial prefrontal cortex.
Significance Statement With the aid of controlled database and a comprehensive paradigm, our study provides new insights of the brain and behavioral processes mediating contextual influences on face emotion-specific processing. Our results reveal that context operates both in face-independent and face-conditional fashion, by biasing the interpretation of any face towards the state implied by associated context, and also triggering processes that monitor the consistency between the different sources of information. Overall, our study unveils key neural processes underlying the coding of state-specific information from both face and context and sheds new light on how they are integrated within the medial prefrontal cortex.
'Disgust and food neophobia – a fear of new foods – are often cited as obstacles to adopting new, more sustainable food choices, but I believe that recent history offers a more complicated picture.' https://theconversation.com/safe-route-or-sushi-route-2-strategies-to-turn-yuck-to-yum-and-convince-people-to-eat-unusual-foods-225419 #foodstudies #disgust #neophobia #sustainability #food
The Conversation‘Safe route’ or ‘sushi route’ − 2 strategies to turn yuck to yum and convince people to eat unusual foodsPast shifts in food habits suggest there are 2 paths to the adoption of new foods: One relies on familiarity and safety, the other on novelty and excitement.
'Disgust and food neophobia – a fear of new foods – are often cited as obstacles to adopting new, more sustainable food choices, but I believe that recent history offers a more complicated picture.' https://theconversation.com/safe-route-or-sushi-route-2-strategies-to-turn-yuck-to-yum-and-convince-people-to-eat-unusual-foods-225419 #foodstudies #disgust #neophobia #sustainability #food
The Conversation‘Safe route’ or ‘sushi route’ − 2 strategies to turn yuck to yum and convince people to eat unusual foodsPast shifts in food habits suggest there are 2 paths to the adoption of new foods: One relies on familiarity and safety, the other on novelty and excitement.
