I Am Not Caused By

Of Course, A Culture As Manically And Massively Materialistic As Ours Creates Materialistic Behavior In Its People, Especially In Those People Who've Been Subjected To Nothing But The Destruction Of Imagination That This Culture Calls Education, The Destruction Of Autonomy It Calls Work, And The Destruction Of Activity It Calls Entertainment.

We Approach People The Same Way We Approach Our Cars. We Take The Poor Kid To A Doctor And Ask, "what's Wrong With Him, How Much Will It Cost, And When Can I Pick Him Up?"

Many People Nowadays Who Discover That They Have A Major Symptom, Whether Psychological Or Physical, Begin To Study It. They Get Drawn Very Deeply Into The Area Of Their Trouble. They Want To Know More Than Their Doctor. That's A Curious Thing, And Not At All The Way It Used To Be.

The Capacity For People To Kid Themselves Is Huge. Living On Illusions Or Delusions, And The Re-establishing Of These Illusions Or Delusions Requires A Big Effort To Keep Them From Being Seen Through. But A Very Old Idea Is At Work Behind Our Current State Of Affairs: Enantiodromia, Or The Greek Notion Of Things Turning Into Their Opposite.

Any Symptom Can Force You To Go Deeper Into Some Area.