that while you can trace things backwards you can't take them forward -- you can say that a man's depression stems from his unhappy childhood, but you cannot say that because someone has an unhappy childhood he will be depressed in the future.
I was actually thinking about this last night. Mankind in general is always looking back to find a scapegaot for their behavior. With Freud and the emergence of psychology as a "normal" everyday kind of thing, the public had an explanation and excuse for every mistake they ever made. Sad, really, but I just can't hate anybody. They just all do what they percieve as right at the time.
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Date: 2001-10-22 10:00 pm (UTC)I was actually thinking about this last night. Mankind in general is always looking back to find a scapegaot for their behavior. With Freud and the emergence of psychology as a "normal" everyday kind of thing, the public had an explanation and excuse for every mistake they ever made. Sad, really, but I just can't hate anybody. They just all do what they percieve as right at the time.