In our quest to find meaning in everything we often desperately cling to nothing - 15-01-07

The greatest abusers of this era of victimhood are those who treat it as a windfall. - 20-01-07

The cure for depression is in the lifestyle combination of letting go, focusing on someone else and life-affirming physical activity.- 18-07-07

Should Psychologists accentuate the possitive to stem depression?. . . . . . .(Globe and Mail Health Section, Page: A11, 13-10-06)

A contemporary reaction to this question would be: "Duh!" But then, that this question is even asked says so much more about the state of contemporary psychology than it does about depression. The question for me has always been: Who has benefited over the past fifty years from the focus on "what ails you"? The "client" (as in business transactions) or the "helper"? How many wasted years have gone by in the lives of those who have been forced to comply with the assimilated perception that if you have suffered an indignity your life from hereon in will be insufferable. . . The phrase "Victims R us" certainly applies to this past century. - 15-10-06

Re: Cold-blooded shooting at Dawson college - Globe and Mail -13-09-06

“You NEVER get over it. . . counselor says. . . (Shooter Calmly, Randomly Opened Fire - Pg A7)

How encouraging. . . I can only wonder whether we are more traumatized by criminals than we are by some “helping professionals” and the media who seem to have a vested interest in keeping us all victimized? - 14-09-06

Once, imaginations ran wild, now depression creeps. - 06-08-06

What is most frightening about our world is not that it is frightening but that we are raising our children to be afraid, to live their lives based on what is fearful and negative rather than on what is adventurous and positive and exciting. - 29-11-05

If I am not afraid I am a menace to those who are. - 07-11-05

A "true" victim's manifesto: I do not want revenge or compensation. I wish to resolve the pain incurred by those who came before me in such a way as it no longer is pain but rather a memory of pain. I don’t want to be pitied, victimized, fawned over or paid. I am neither a prostitute nor a beggar. I don’t want apologies from the descendants of those who have harmed me. The sons and daughters of the accused did no wrong. I simply want the world to honestly and deeply feel the past I have suffered and to make it possible that this suffering is never again inflicted upon another. And this can only be when all of us begin the healing process of living and sharing and recognizing and being recognized and thriving together. Until that day, we will remain the victims and pseudo-victims and perpetrators and pseudo-perpetrators of a time of suffering of our own making. - 20-10-05

The 21st century mantra of our world is: Victims R Us - 19-10-05

The 21st century has too many victims and not enough heroes, too much need to be loved and too little to respect and be respected, too much sympathy and not enough empathy, too much criticism and not enough critiquing, too much vengeance and not enough caring, too much of "me"and not enough "us". - 17-10-04

The most devastating aspect of the 20th century is that it has created victimhood - an aura of incapacity in its citizenry to overcome problems - It deemed its people weak and incapable of surmounting any and all odds without “specialist” support and control. The 2oth century has announced forever and a day the decline and fall of progress in western civilization.

The hero of the 2oth century is the victim.

As bravery and chivalry once stood as symbols of the righteous. Now, it is the self-righteousness of victimhood which extolls its own virtues while belittling those of their neighbours. 20th century bravery is not measured in light of a person’s ability to surmount the odds but rather that he or she is heroic in that they have succumbed and survived, survived saintly, in that they can now spend their lives singing the praises of their own survival. “Blessed are the weak for they shall enter the kingdom of god. . .” And so the 20th and 21st centuries embrace submission before those who have discovered its ultimate weakness, its crushing embrace of all that is insubstantive, superficial, and incapable of facing let alone surmounting odds. Marketing has sold us on the illusion of strength, The consumption of that illusion has made us weak. - 28-06-04