ERRANT INDIVIDUALISM
"Generations of Americans have been brainwashed with psychological and psychiatric theories that identify the individual as the source of many problems that are basically social in origin. From early childhood, Americans are socialized and educated to believe that with proper attitudes, insight, behavioral training, and motivation, the individual can overcome almost any social problem; child abuse, depression, loneliness, anomie, chemical abuse, and so forth. Thus, Americans of all social classes-the poor and the rich alike-have a trained incapacity to see the community of which they are a part as either the cause or the solution of many social problems."
