I commented to someone the other day, jokingly, that maybe we need to start a movement for normal people to go see psychotherapists to help the THERAPISTS become normal. As things stand, they seem to derive enormous satisfaction from relationships in which they are the parent, and the clients children.
In this context, a great many of them offer up ideas which are as farcial as they are damaging: for example, that benefit attends a thorough investigation of the past. As we have all likely personally experienced, this leads in many if not most cases to grown men and women blaming their current behavior on things that happened decades ago. Of course, indulging peoples innate capacity for playing the role of victim will always be profitable in such a context. Business success, in this field, often implies professional incompetence.
One could easily, of course, draw an analogue with Leftists, who likewise cherish the role–typically unearned and for which they are fully unsuited–of playing the role both of mother and father for whomever is foolish enough to entrust them with their upkeep.
And in the same spirit, they like to bring up crimes from the past–such as slavery–for which NOT ONE person alive today bears any responsibility.
Perennial childishness is the seeming objective for both therapists and Leftists. One would assume, if this formulation were logical, that they would at least be qualified to play the role of adults, but regrettably their own ideology creates the spirit of childishness in them, too.
We have learned in history, though, that you are never too young to be ruthless. Many of Pol Pot’s most prolific murderers were in their teens, and the spectacle of the maniacal, sadistic children torturing and killing their teachers in Mao’s Cultural Revolution should be burned on everyone’s mind. Should be.
Most Americans would have no idea what I am talking about, though. We really are that stupid, and stupid by design.