>Exactly. As I've said many times, a system that -- by its own
>frequent admisssion -- is driven solely by fear and greed is
>guaranteed to potentiate anyone's neuroses and bring out the worst
>in everyone. Piddling around with individual approaches -- i.e.,
>sessions on the analyst's couch -- to this collective problem is
>ultimately a waste of time. This country doesn't need better
>psychiatric benefits as much as it needs socialism.
Why can't it have both? People have problems for reasons other than capitalism. Some people are happier and healthier than others, and if it's possible to make the less happy and less healthy happier & healthier, why wait for the revo that might never come? You could say that the epidemic of depression, symbolized by the mass consumption of Prozac and the like, has social causes, like alienation and speedup, but does that mean you should just let people be miserable? That's like Mother Teresa not giving painkillers to the terminally ill because Heaven awaits them.
Doug