Teachers Today Can't Take To A Child.

Everything That Everyone Is Afraid Of Has Already Happened: The Fragility Of Capitalism, Which We Don't Want To Admit; The Loss Of The Empire Of The United States; And American Exceptionalism. In Fact, American Exceptionalism Is That We Are Exceptionally Backward In About Fifteen Different Categories, From Education To Infrastructure.

I'm Not Critical Of The People Who Do Psychotherapy. The Therapists In The Trenches Have To Face An Awful Lot Of The Social, Political, And Economic Failures Of Capitalism. They Have To Take Care Of All The Rejects And Failures. They Are Sincere And Work Hard With Very Little Credit, And The Hmos And The Pharmaceutical Companies And Insurance Companies Are Trying To Wipe Them Out. So Certainly I Am Not Attacking Them. I Am Attacking The Theories Of Psychotherapy.

The Culture Is Going Into A Psychological Depression. We Are Concerned About Our Place In The World, About Being Competitive: Will My Children Have As Much As I Have? Will I Ever Own My Own Home? How Can I Pay For A New Car? Are Immigrants Taking Away My White World?

Character Forms A Life Regardless Of How Obscurely That Life Is Lived And How Little Light Falls On It From The Stars.

We Are Human Less By Virtue Of Our Ideal Goals Than By The Vice Of Our Inferiority.