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Old 03-18-2008, 01:10 PM   #1 (permalink)
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One Nation Under Therapy:
How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
by Christina Hoff Sommers, Sally Satel

This is a fascinating look at the rise of "therapism" and non-judgmentalism, triggered by the theories of sociologists like Abraham Maslow.

Several schools banned children from playing tag because "in tag there is always a victim".

The Roman Catholic church saw its pedophile priests as good men who had fallen astray, and required intensive counselling before returning to their flocks. Why didn't the church just call the cops?

The end result of therapism is the loss of personal responsibility. Nobody is responsible for anything. We are all victims of our respective "disorders".

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Old 03-18-2008, 01:44 PM   #2 (permalink)
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"The Greatest Battle" - About Stalin and Hitler and the battles fought in their countries.
"The Last Jihad"- Terrorist have attacked the president and the question remians whether to drop A-Bombs and H-Bombs on Iraq.
"The Total Book on Music Theory" - Pretty self explanitory, you need music theory if you want to compose music.

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Old 04-17-2008, 08:15 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I am reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
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I can't read.
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I can't read.
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Old 04-17-2008, 10:03 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I can't read.
That's funny the same thing popped into my head when I saw the thread title.

Not reading anything,

I just read

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret.
by Judy Blume

and
Stuart Little
by E.B. White
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My wife can read a novel in a day, I barely have the attention span to get through a long post. I don't see how she does it.
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Not counting text books for school (or, when I actually have the time):

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

"The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World" by Paul Davies
"If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, then have faith; if you want to be a disciple of truth, then search" -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Not counting text books for school (or, when I actually have the time):

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin

"The Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World" by Paul Davies
Yeah right, you're just saying that to in an attempt to impress us.
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