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From Fred On Everything this morning:
The function of psychologists is to serve as secular priests for an irreligious age. They provide comfort for people who want reassurance from insipid hand-holders who smell slightly of some inner truth. They form a vacuous clergy relentlessly certifying the obvious. Talking to one of them is like being patted on the head and having your face wiped with a warm moist rag. It doesn't accomplish anything, but you feel attended to.
Asked to characterize the sniper, [the psychologist] said, "Well, I think we can say that these killings are the work of a disturbed individual...."
Oh.
I received this insight with gratitude. It was comforting to learn that serial snipers weren't normal. It is well that we have psychologists to study these truths.
The function of psychologists is to serve as secular priests for an irreligious age. They provide comfort for people who want reassurance from insipid hand-holders who smell slightly of some inner truth. They form a vacuous clergy relentlessly certifying the obvious. Talking to one of them is like being patted on the head and having your face wiped with a warm moist rag. It doesn't accomplish anything, but you feel attended to.
Asked to characterize the sniper, [the psychologist] said, "Well, I think we can say that these killings are the work of a disturbed individual...."
Oh.
I received this insight with gratitude. It was comforting to learn that serial snipers weren't normal. It is well that we have psychologists to study these truths.