Instead of a political speech, on July 25, Senator Bob Casey, vocalizing at a disturbing, robotic pace, regurgitated the text of an unknown human fifth grader's school report on the state of Pennsylvania, including the word "quote" whenever the text had a quotation mark in it.
I'm not saying any place should stay the same but there's something really disturbing about the pace of change.
At the same time, we find its scope and pace disturbing, partly because it has been associated with authoritarianism and environmental degradation, and partly because we rather like the idea of the United States being the undisputed top dog.
Persons with dementia often exhibit such disturbing behaviors as pacing, use of inappropriate language, acting out, refusal of necessary care, hallucinations, and delusions.
And if the level of educational attainment does not keep pace (a disturbing trend since the late 1970s), the median wage will continue to decline; wage inequality, a major source of income inequality, will widen further; and the structural unemployment rate may well increase.
The most viscerally exciting installation this year was Sohrab Hura's two-part video in which a relentless stream of often disturbing images unfolded at a furious pace in a darkened room in Peckham during PhotoLondon.
Disturbed people and disturbing images.
On the other hand, the execution of Brody was so paced out, so brutally disturbing that it actually was emotionally scarring.
More disturbing, however, has been the incrementally slow pace of change within many of the signatories to the Convention.
"Not only are we a pace-setter in production values, we are also a pace-setter in murderous, amoral, profoundly disturbing content the world over," he says.
