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I've Always Been Crazy, But It's Kept Me From Going Insane
Proposition
These are the first citizens of contingency.
Far from the doctrinaire past of the old ones,
They think in their prudent meditations
Not about ecstasy (the soul leaving the body)
Nor enthusiasm (the god entering one’s person)
Nor even about sanity (which means
Health, an impossible perfection)
But ponder instead relative truth and the warm
Dusk of amelioration. The cautious
Young augurs with their family-life, good books
And records and foreign cars believe
In amelioration—in that, and in suffering.
Robert Pinsky, from “Essay on Psychiatrists”
--
We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse by James Hillman and Michael Ventura (1993).
I've Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings cover by Jaime Wyatt (thanks Jaime!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBr_R5pwRQ&ab_channel=JaimeWyatt
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By Steve TellProposition
These are the first citizens of contingency.
Far from the doctrinaire past of the old ones,
They think in their prudent meditations
Not about ecstasy (the soul leaving the body)
Nor enthusiasm (the god entering one’s person)
Nor even about sanity (which means
Health, an impossible perfection)
But ponder instead relative truth and the warm
Dusk of amelioration. The cautious
Young augurs with their family-life, good books
And records and foreign cars believe
In amelioration—in that, and in suffering.
Robert Pinsky, from “Essay on Psychiatrists”
--
We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse by James Hillman and Michael Ventura (1993).
I've Always Been Crazy - Waylon Jennings cover by Jaime Wyatt (thanks Jaime!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RBr_R5pwRQ&ab_channel=JaimeWyatt