We're An Air Bag Society That Wants

It's The Only Way We Can Get Out Of Being So Human-centered: To Remain Attached To Something Other Than Humans.

Tell Me What You Yearn For And I Shall Tell You Who You Are. We Are What We Reach For, The Idealized Image That Drives Our Wandering.

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?

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.

One Strand Of Psychotherapy Is Certainly To Help Relieve Suffering, Which Is A Genuine Medical Concern. If Someone Is Bleeding, You Want To Stop The Bleeding. Another Medical Aspect Is The Treatment Of Chronic Complaints That Are Disabling In Some Way. And Many Of Our Troubles Are Chronic. Life Is Chronic. So There Is A Reasonable, Sensible, Medical Side To Psychotherapy.