What's Behind the Epidemic of Mental Health?

A big part of it is just, you know, going too soft on ediction and on homelessness. It's now very main stream as this idea of harm reduction - that nothing should be done to dissuade people from addiction or from the use of these really dangerous drugs. I trace it all the way back to the fifties in my research. We were just much stricter about these things in the past. You find conservative cities over much more strict than liberal cities. And i think they have been quite willing to allow these kinds of inappropriate and quite ill behaviors in public because they see them as manifesting the overall inherent evil of our civilization.