Horatio Gould
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Appearances Over Time
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This is the Fantasie Eclipse.
Like the good times.
Good times.
Yes, exactly.
I called it the Belle Epoque.
Yeah.
So this is, but what's very funny is that the stereotype of the kind of brooding, depressed, French nihilistic intellectual.
Beret, cigarette.
Yeah.
Sociology is invented with a text in 1899 by a guy called Durkheim.
And the book is called Suicide.
And it's about how- Does it have a subtitle?
No, it's just called Suicide.
And it's like, suicide is not just when you are mad, it is because the world is leaving you bad.
And he basically, he frames suicide as like a result of sociological stuff rather than just a mad cunt.
He takes a lot of data and he finds that Protestants kill themselves more than Catholics, obviously.
Right, why?
Because we're not a burden to the state.
No, because they have less ties to the community.
Yeah.