Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems.
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It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
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Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
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The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. … As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.
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The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
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If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.
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once you sell more trust units then we're on the slippery slope downward.
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If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
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Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?
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Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
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Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society's porous face.
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