Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

No I wasn't. I've said these types of things prior to seeing my therapist. Things about how if you quit trying and blame the responsibility for your own happiness or life on others rather than taking charge you're probably not going to get better. That's not a conservative view. That's not political in any way. It's similar to the Republican "pull yourself up by the boot straps" attitude that doesn't want to admit that some people are born with more opportunity than others, but it's not quite the same.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.