A Curious Reversal In The Locus Of

Orders Can Be Benign Or Malign, But The Habit Of Obeying Them Can Become Ingrained.

A Curious Reversal In The Locus Of Moral Concern Has Taken Place: People Feel Responsible For Everything Except For What They Do.

Life Is A Biography, Not A Series Of Disconnected Moments, More Or Less Pleasurable But Increasingly Tedious And Unsatisfying Unless One Imposes A Purposive Pattern Upon Them.

Obesity Is The Result Of A Loss Of Self-control. Indeed, Loss Of Self-control Might Be Said To Be The Defining Social (or Anti-social) Characteristic Of Our Age: Public Drunkenness, Excessive Gambling, Promiscuity And Common-or-garden Rudeness Are All Examples Of Our Collective Loss Of Self-control.

Considering The Importance Of Resentment In Our Lives, And The Damage It Does, It Receives Scant Attention From Psychiatrists And Psychologists. Resentment Is A Great Rationalizer: It Presents Us With Selected Versions Of Our Own Past, So That We Do Not Recognize Our Own Mistakes And Avoid The Necessity To Make Painful Choices.