Civic virtue would be a high price to pay for moral health. Instead the wealthy consult the family therapist and charge off the counseling as a health related expense. No wonder our society is sick. Oedipus, The King, took the sickness upon himself. He was ruined but the city was healed. Where the hell is Dick Cheney? Bush? Obama? Clinton? Would that they would tear out their own eyes and exclaim, "I once had sight but could not see, now am blind and see all too well." Instead, they too and their kids no doubt take pills. This strikes us as normal. And so we have succumbed to the plague, we healers as contagious as our patients. The best medicine may still be laughter, Sire, if my sick jokes may please Your Honor.
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