JK Rowling on CBC Newsworld tonight

[bdclark0423]

bdclark0423

The remark Jannett makes could be considered slanderous because it's 
a sarcastic remark directed towards a specific group of people 
choosing to buy material goods to make you feel better (most likely 
just a short term effect) when perhaps in the long term it would be 
better to pay for therapy.  British are considered to have a dry 
sense of humor laiden with sarcasm, irony and witt.  They can come 
off as un-emotional on the surface, as any indication of loss of 
personal control is considered a weakness.  Yet, they seem to revel 
the fact if they can see someone esle suffering the same (the ironic 
twist), hence, her comment was apres pos.  My grandather came from 
an orphanage, but had worked hard, made decent living for his 
family, and when his father-in-law died, left him the family 
business, the telephone company for the small town they lived in.  
When Southern Bell merged with another telephone company (can't 
remember the name) this town was under the regional coverage of the 
merger, so they bought my grandfather out for millions of dollars.  
Now that he's a millionare, he's too stubborn to spend money on 
anything that would show that he is weak, hence once again the 
ironic twist.

modern psychology is said to have had it's birth with Austrian 
Sigmund Frued around 1900 or so, and he worked his way up the in the 
science world to finally consider himself a doctor of psychology 
amongst the elite of Vienna (this is all by memory, so not sure on 
exact facts but just trying to set the basis)  so really, it was 
only the noble classes of Europe that considered psychology a truly 
medical practice throughout the world until the mid-60s after birth-
control pill was evented and the american sexual revolution began.  
american youth rebelled against the straight laced, established 
institutions of the middle class.  psychodelic drugs, vagan diets, 
eastern philosphy, civil rights, and free love was the appettite of 
the day.  shortly afterwards, the youth of this era were no longer 
so, they started to settle down and raise families, but they still 
maintained there liberated ideas.  With families of their own, in 
their own ways wanted to still be consired the counterculture from 
the previous generation.  New ways of education, discipline,  
religion, medicine, and therapy were born out of this new society 
that advocated that a person shouldn't just be physically healthy, 
but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.  

It was no longer the status quo to have material goods, if you 
couldn't fully enjoy the time to have them.

Anyway, i don't know why I'm going on like this except you've asked 
me to explain how US culture thinks about therapy, i guess.  but if 
you want my own opinion, sure therapy can be helpful, but there's so 
many different ways to have therapy (like talk to your friends, play 
an intrument, post on the internet, etc)  Personally, I would buy 
the shoes too....

This is still not the point.  please read my previous post as I'm 
trying to explain that just because there were certain terms used, 
the flood of replies was response when (in my opinion) was 
unnecessary, and so you see this going back and forth, you said 
this, and I fell this way, and why do feel that blah blah blah.....

anyway, i've totally lost focus on why i'm replying now


I guess, just treat each other respect, and if you feel offended, it 
may not be the other person's fault, it all could just be simple 
misinterperation...

I'll be happy to answer any more questions you have, but it's 
probably better not to continue to add to this post as it's probably 
a dead topic by now

bdclark0423