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Jo Waller's avatar

I absolutely disagree that Mate is blaming the parents. He explains how what happens to the parents, and to their parents before them can get passed down through the generations.

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Nathan Keller's avatar

It was guessed that lifetimes of parent stress effectedvtheir children. Mate is lending such voice as he has to underline the old Freudian idea minus blame, be it said, that we cannot shake it without a conscious look. Whic is Freud's despairing position that all we do is a comforting b3cause familiar reenactment of Freud knewx

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Nathan Keller's avatar

-knew not what. But Mate proposes we question our decisions about who do we hate next. And adopt a kind of mea culpa without an audience. In other words we are neurotic characters and better that you be an auntie Mame than an Anti Meme about any hard working person.

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