{"id":888,"date":"2005-04-22T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T12:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=888"},"modified":"2005-04-22T09:34:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T13:34:30","slug":"the-end-of-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/the-end-of-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of self-reliance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/georgewill\/gw20050422.shtml\">Townhall.com<\/a>  George Will<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; It hurt her feelings, says Jane Fonda, sharing her feelings, that one of her husbands liked them to have sexual threesomes. `&#8221;It reinforced my feeling I wasn&#8217;t good enough.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the Scottsdale, Ariz., Unified School District office, the receptionist used to be called a receptionist. Now she is  &#8220;director of first impressions.&#8221; The happy director says,  &#8220;Everyone wants to be important.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers of pens and markers report a surge in teachers&#8217; demands for purple ink pens. When marked in red, corrections of students&#8217; tests seem so awfully judgmental. <\/p>\n<p>Fonda&#8217;s confession, Scottsdale&#8217;s tweaking of terminology and the recoil from red markings are manifestations of today&#8217;s therapeutic culture. The nature and menace of  &#8220;therapism&#8221; is the subject of a new book,  &#8220;One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance&#8221; by Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, M.D., resident scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com George Will WASHINGTON &#8212; It hurt her feelings, says Jane Fonda, sharing her feelings, that one of her husbands liked them to have sexual threesomes. `&#8221;It reinforced my feeling I wasn&#8217;t good enough.&#8217;&#8221; In the Scottsdale, Ariz., Unified School District office, the receptionist used to be called a receptionist. Now she is &#8220;director of &#8230; <a title=\"The end of self-reliance?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/the-end-of-self-reliance\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The end of self-reliance?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}