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Theodore Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels) - Evil in a Decadent Society
Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta
Do You Think That the Knowledge of Psychology Has Made Society Worse?
Do you think that the knowledge of psychology and psychiatry has made society measurably worse? I don't know how you would go about measuring it. For my by my instinct tells me that it makes people er, less able to reflect in a genuine way. To give an example of genuine reflection, you can read the essays of doctor johnson. There is real reflection because he doesn't have any theory to propoundEr. But if you go on a bus, you will hear people talking about their brain chemistry. Well, they don't know anything about brain chemistry. They probably couldn't tell you the formula of salt. This is no morea real in fact, it's equivalent to
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