Thanks for this! Imagine the field day advocates of trigger warnings would have with the text of Genesis. Perhaps we should all crawl backwards into the garden of Eden and avoid free will altogether.
A salutary post. I've always had a particular liking for a line from your own work. In 'Therapy Culture' (2004) you wrote: "Therapeutic culture incites people to regard themselves as objects, rather than as subjects of their destiny." Spot on!
Thanks for this! Imagine the field day advocates of trigger warnings would have with the text of Genesis. Perhaps we should all crawl backwards into the garden of Eden and avoid free will altogether.
Too true!
A salutary post. I've always had a particular liking for a line from your own work. In 'Therapy Culture' (2004) you wrote: "Therapeutic culture incites people to regard themselves as objects, rather than as subjects of their destiny." Spot on!
Wrote that a long time ago to counter the trend towards fatalism. Unfortunately today this trend has become far, far more powerful than 18 years ago.