Economics Is A Slave-driver. No

Yes, We Worship The Idea Of The "self-made Man" - Otherwise We'd Go On Strike Against Bill Gates Having All That Money! We Worship That Idea.

As Plotinus Tells Us, We Elected The Body, The Parents, The Place, And The Circumstances That Suited The Soul And That, As The Myth Says, Belongs To Its Necessity.

Aptitude Can Show Calling, But It Isn't The Only Indicator. Ineptitude Or Dysfunction May Reveal Calling More Than Talent, Curiously Enough.

I'm Not Critical Of The People Who Do Psychotherapy. The Therapists In The Trenches Have To Face An Awful Lot Of The Social, Political, And Economic Failures Of Capitalism. They Have To Take Care Of All The Rejects And Failures. They Are Sincere And Work Hard With Very Little Credit, And The Hmos And The Pharmaceutical Companies And Insurance Companies Are Trying To Wipe Them Out. So Certainly I Am Not Attacking Them. I Am Attacking The Theories Of Psychotherapy.

The Easy Path Of Aging Is To Become A Thick-skinned, Unbudging Curmudgeon, A Battle-ax. To Grow Soft And Sweet Is The Harder Way.