The purpose of psychology is to explain how we manage to live.
"The act of writing is an act of resistance, a way to reclaim one's voice and identity."
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought."