[lbo-talk] Obama's Philadelphia race speech and the American Creed

[Doug Henwood]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:27 PM, B. wrote:


> What you said sounds like the worldview of someone
> who's been through years of psycho-therapy and has
> internalized the fatalistic psycho-therapy mantra that
> "You can't change other people -- but you CAN change
> yourself."

Heck no, Carrol hates shrinkery, esp of the Freudian sort. He's a  
pessimist, or maybe more a fatalist, about much of anything changing.  
Depression is just brain chemistry, and social change just happens  
for mysterious unspecified reasons.

Doug