On the other hand, Hg is actually safe to lick. It's a lot more noble than, for example, silver, so acids and bases won't attack it. Lots of people even have it stored in their teeth, permanently.
Perhaps it's time to rehash an old Soviet joke, with switched roles:
European: I can walk into the Berlaymont building, I can pound the president's desk, and I can say: "Mrs. President, I don't like the way you're running the EU."American: I can do that.European: You can?American: Yes. I can go into the White House to the Oval Office, I can pound the desk and say: "Mr. President, I don't like the way President von der Leyen is running the EU."
I knew as a teenager that periods are worse for some women than for others, but only about a year ago, I got to know a woman - with endometriosis - who regularly passes out from the pain, even after taking pain meds. I feel just so, so sorry for her.If I were head of the WHO, I would make eradicating this dreadful disease a priority on day 1.
The more closed a worldview, or - phrased differently - the more systematic and scientific an ideology is, the less it will be able to muster the pragmatism necessary to establish a hegemonic position. A worldview, a doctrine, a system in its pure form is never capable of hegemony. The capacity for hegemony contaminates thought structures. It manifests itself downright in the willingness to integrate other positions and ideologies.
Pessimistic Corollary: Ideological purity is a moral consolation price for those with no shot at power.Conspiracy Corollary: Ideological purity is a device by 3-letter-agencies to divide the left.Optimistic Corollary: Ideological purity is an essential requirement, as a means to inoculate a budding movement against the inevitable corruption and adulteration caused later by real life conditions, and to sow the seeds of a future enlightened society.
Boaneur?