Follow-up re: Move to Dreamwidth?

[med_cat]

I had asked the comm about this 2 weeks ago, in this post

We've heard from most of our posters and a handful of other comm members, and opinions were somewhat divided.

I would like to start growing our DW community, so let's try this:

For those of us who have DW accounts, let's post to DW and manually cross-post here if possible.

Those who don't want to move to DW, please continue posting and/or commenting here.

I'll also try to post a summary of the week to both DW and LJ comms once a week.

Let me know what you think, and if you've any other suggestions, please let me know.

Those who want to post on DW, please request membership and let me know so I can give you posting access!

Thanks,

Cat

Friday word: Anomie

[med_cat]

Greetings, everyone!

We want to grow our community on DW, so, here goes!
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anomie, n. / ˈa-nə-mē


: social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values The reforms of a ruined economy, under these conditions, brought about social anomie, desperation and poverty rather than relief and prosperity.— T. Mastnak

also : personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals

In the face of these prevailing values, many workers experience a kind of anomie. Their jobs become empty, meaningless, and intrinsically unsatisfying. — Robert Straus


Didion has always been known for the crystal sheen of her writing—as a child she retyped pages from A Farewell to Arms—and the seeming casualness of her prose has long divided readers. The critic John Lahr once condemned Didion for suffusing her writing with nothing more than her own anomie, which he memorably called “the Brentwood Blues. She meditates on her desolation and makes it elegant,” he wrote. “Sent to get the pulse of a people, Didion ends up taking her own temperature. Narcissism is the side show of conservatism.”

https://nymag.com/arts/books/features/joan-didion-2011-10/#_ga=2.10316019.75295559.1641972104-1819455217.1640074622

Etymology:

French anomie, from Middle French, from Greek anomia lawlessness, from anomos lawless, from a- + nomos law, from nemein to distribute

First known use: 1933