![]() ![]() What we today accept as normal, everyday life would have seemed a vision of hell to a man of the Middle Ages: technology run riot workers enslaved to capitalism sex, money and power the presiding deities religion apparently the preserve of the ignorant, the superficial and the deceived. ![]() The initial shock of a new and unpleasant experience fairly quickly levels out to a plateau that becomes the new norm. We might take issue with this particular instance of ‘anything’, but the fact remains that human beings are amazingly adaptable when it comes to pushing the psychological boundaries. ‘You can get used to anything,’ chuckled a retired SS captain in a documentary recently about his posting to Auschwitz, after he’d described how the bodies in the gas chambers always formed a perfect pyramid, with its apex at the grille in the roof. ![]()
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