Feeling Good About Yourself Is

There Is Nothing An Addict Likes More, Or That Serves As Better Pretext For Continuing His Present Way Of Life, Than To Place The Weight Of Responsibility For His Situation Somewhere Other Than On His Own Decisions.

The Idea That Man Is A Tabula Rasa, Or Mao's Sheet Of Blank Paper Upon Which The Most Beautiful Characters Can Be Written, Is An Old One With Disastrous Implications. I Do Not Think Though That The Cults You Mention Could Survive Honest Thought About Human Nature.

Childhood In Large Parts Of Modern Britain, At Any Rate, Has Been Replaced By Premature Adulthood, Or Rather Adolescence. Children Grow Up Very Fast But Not Very Far. That Is Why It Is Possible For 14 Year Olds Now To Establish Friendships With 26 Year Olds - Because They Know By The Age Of 14 All They Are Ever Going To Know.

Nonjudgmentalism Is Not Really Nonjudgmental. It Is The Judgment That . . . Everything Is The Same, Nothing Is Better. This Is As Barbaric And Untruthful A Doctrine As Has Yet Emerged From The Fertile Mind Of Man.

The Idea That Freedom Is Merely The Ability To Act Upon One's Whims Is Surely Very Thin And Hardly Begins To Capture The Complexities Of Human Existence; A Man Whose Appetite Is His Law Strikes Us Not As Liberated But Enslaved.