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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Re: recent (beastly) articles
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> I suspect there is a problem here (a friend calls it ``the `wimpification'
> of the American male''), but I don't think it is just a male problem.  I
> think it is the result of the increasingly self-concious nature of the
> American psyche: our intense obsession with ``self-image'', and with such
> self-centered emotions as guilt, greed, and vengence.

Guilt, greed, and vengeance are not emotions but learned attitudes.  A child
learns very quickly that he "should be ashamed of himself," or should love
to get things, or must not let the other fellow "get away with it."  The
child who does not learn these things will be better off as an adult.

In other respects I agree fully with the original article.  The less
you "know" about yourself, the more you can do.  But it helps if you
can distinguish your emotions from the behavior traps that monopolize
them.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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