EVERYTHING IS THERAPY

Resolving the conflict of reality and fantasy

In this post I will examine some of the ideas of Irving Kristol, a brilliant man whose work I would have easily dismissed as a pipeline from Trotsky to the Project For a New American Century - had I not read it.

There is good reason to review his writings, as they reveal much of the workings of our current regime.

Today we will look at his concept of “therapeutic education”, its origins, and how it became so established in politics and public messaging that it has vanished into omnipresence.

I guarantee that it features in one of the spiciest-titled essays you have ever read.