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Of Course, A Culture As Manically And Massively Materialistic As Ours Creates Materialistic Behavior In Its People, Especially In Those People Who've Been Subjected To Nothing But The Destruction Of Imagination That This Culture Calls Education, The Destruction Of Autonomy It Calls Work, And The Destruction Of Activity It Calls Entertainment.

Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

The Whole Culture Is Under Terrible Pressure And Fraught With Worry. It's Hard To Get Out Of That Box. That's The Dominant Situation All Over The World.

Psychotherapy Makes Every Problem A Subjective, Inner Problem. And That's Not Where The Problems Come From. They Come From The Environment, The Cities, The Economy, The Racism. They Come From Architecture, School Systems, Capitalism, Exploitation. They Come From Many Places That Psychotherapy Does Not Address. Psychotherapy Theory Turns It All On You: You Are The One Who Is Wrong.

Many People Nowadays Who Discover That They Have A Major Symptom, Whether Psychological Or Physical, Begin To Study It. They Get Drawn Very Deeply Into The Area Of Their Trouble. They Want To Know More Than Their Doctor. That's A Curious Thing, And Not At All The Way It Used To Be.