ex cathedra

Monday, July 04, 2011

Although I am a therapist myself, sometimes we designate as "therapy" what seems more like human kindness.

Unaccountably moving. A young girl beginning her life, with an old woman at the end of hers.

1 comment:

Leah said...: Am I the only one who is troubled by how 'necessary' therapy is in everyday peoples lives?
When the old, the infirm,the dying lived among the general population and not sequestered away - there was no need to hire special therapists.
I admire these musicians, have no problem with anyone paying for their time and talent. To label it 'therapy' puts it all in a whole new catagory - one that makes death and dying an unnatural event - which will befall each and every one of us.; 4:00 PM, July 04, 2011

Toward Our Future

What the sons of Europa need is a new religion: one that is as tribal, portable and survivalist as Judaism, as masculine, terrestrial and tough as Islam and as intellectually and aesthetically creative as Christianity...with a dose of the unflinching realism of the ancestral ways of the Greeks and Romans, Germans and Celts and Slavs..And for the larger Indo-European frame, something of the Indian capacity to combine an ultimate and philosophical realization of The One with a robustly mytho-poetic religion on-the-ground. Oh, and some of the psychological acumen of Buddhism.

Liberalism's Basic Flaw

Liberals believe that the chief role of the State is to force everyone to be equal, (ie, take vengeance on the successful). So when they are confronted with any group that they deem less well off than themselves, they are morally disarmed, completely and utterly. Any group that can achieve Victim Status is on their way to power and the (White) liberal's only job is to give them what they want, no matter how much that damages him. And nothing may ever be expected, much less demanded, of them in return. It's a recipe for suicide: no other outcome is possible.