Greeks & shrinks

(1975 January 15)

[Instead of teaching Lawrence the Greek language] I would go into Greek culture. It's too bad their culture died out. They got soft and put away their former ideals. That is what is happening to our culture. We are becoming amoral. To my mind the psychiatrists are greatly to blame as perhaps some oracles were then. Our people go to the shrinks with their problems and are told to do "what makes them happy." There are other considerations. Are they ever pointed to the hard way of duty and honor and integrity? Not that I hear of. It's the easy way and that is not my way and I hold no truce with it.