miti’s Reviews > Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty > Status Update

nan goldin’s protest at the met just sent me over the edge

"Poor people in the inner city and in the backwoods of Kentucky almost never have the luxury of thinking about their 'duty to society. They are surviving day to day," he wrote. Their "criminal intent" is "driven not by greed or hatred, but by a powerful addiction. I'd bet any sum of money the vast majority of abusers don't want to be addicts." THIS

“But it is also true that people who achieve a certain level of wealth and professional renown often tend, at a certain point, to start buying art. Perhaps this mode of acquisition is an effort to silence some inner doubt about their own place in the culture, or perhaps it merely represents a new realm to be conquered.”

i’ve always hated the medical sales industry, and now i get to do it in a much more critical and informed way 🔥

reading about the perverse romanticization and dehumanization of women with mental illness throughout history never gets easier