Fear Is A Huge Thing For Older

The New Age Self-help Phenomenon Is Pretty Mushy, But It's Also Very American. Our History Is Filled With Traveling Preachers And Quack Medicine And Searches For The Soul. I Don't See This As A New Thing. I Think The New Age Is Part Of A Phenomenon That's Been There All Along.

We Vote For Perot. We Think He's A Great, Marvelous, Honest Man. We Send Money To His Campaign, Even Though He Is One Of The Richest Capitalists In Our Culture. Imagine, Sending Money To Perot! It's Unbelievable, Yet It's Part Of That Worship Of Individuality.

My Goal Is To Create A Therapy Of Ideas, To Try To Bring In New Ideas So That We Can See The Same Old Problems Differently.

I Don't Think You Can Revive Traditions On Purpose.

Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.