Is This the Age of Irresponsibility?(counsellingresource.com)
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Is This the Age of Irresponsibility?
http://counsellingresource.com/features/2009/07/30/is-this-the-age-of-irresponsibility/
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> The person commented that disturbed characters "seem to infest every area of life" even including "the ranks of doctors, therapists and public officials."
The person says that like the idea that "disturbed characters" infest politics is a new thing.
The person says that like the idea that "disturbed characters" infest politics is a new thing.
[...] In the Victorian era, the social climate or zeitgeist was indeed very repressive. If there were a motto that best described the social milieu of the time, it would have been "Don’t even think about it!" People were over-controlled and were programmed to be very apprehensive [...]
[...] our age is most characterized by its degree of permissiveness, license and privilege. And if there were a motto to best describe the Western cultural milieu, it would be as the once popular commercial advocated: Just, do it!. As a result, [...] modern culture has created a situation in which increasingly more people are not hung-up enough to restrain themselves from simply doing what they want to do and with a fair degree of indifference to the consequences [...]
[...] our age is most characterized by its degree of permissiveness, license and privilege. And if there were a motto to best describe the Western cultural milieu, it would be as the once popular commercial advocated: Just, do it!. As a result, [...] modern culture has created a situation in which increasingly more people are not hung-up enough to restrain themselves from simply doing what they want to do and with a fair degree of indifference to the consequences [...]
[...] our age is most characterized by its degree of permissiveness, license and privilege. And if there were a motto to best describe the Western cultural milieu, it would be as the once popular commercial advocated: Just, do it!. As a result, [...] modern culture has created a situation in which increasingly more people are not hung-up enough to restrain themselves from simply doing what they want to do and with a fair degree of indifference to the consequences [...]