Friday, September 28, 2012

Brain Eating Zombie of the Day

Righteous White Guy David Brooks who apparently read a book on psychology last week or something.

The Psych Approach
When you look over the domestic policy landscape, you see all these different people in different policy silos with different budgets: in health care, education, crime, poverty, social mobility and labor force issues. But, in their disjointed ways, they are all dealing with the same problem — that across vast stretches of America, economic, social and family breakdowns are producing enormous amounts of stress and unregulated behavior, which dulls motivation, undermines self-control and distorts lives.
Maybe it’s time for people in all these different fields to get together in a room and make a concerted push against the psychological barriers to success.
Yes, that approach seems to be having excellent results.  Suicide rates are increasing at an alarming pace.  Let's do it some more.