The Triumph of the Therapeutic Mind
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightBeyond the political posturing over state and federal budgets, there looms an age-old philosophical divide over human nature, perhaps defined as the therapeutic versus the tragic view of our existence. The therapeutic view — thanks to the bounty and affluence brought about by modern technology — has largely triumphed. The tragic view is deemed the domain of the embittered, the selfish, and the downright mean. There are several tenets of the modern therapeutic view. In such a utopi...