11-04-2014, 07:08 AM
Thanks for the kind words, tectak. I'm not sure how brave poets can be considered in our part of the world. Nobody's going to shoot us or even stick us in the tranquiliser. Most of us strap ourselves in readily enough.
Anyhow, I wanted to be even-handed with Rush, or at least condemn him with his own words. I don't feel that more righteousness on my part is called for. I've heard plenty enough of my own voice railing against the sins of Psychiatry, and to tell the truth it feels a little unfair, underhand, in beating a man with the stick of his son's misery. But it is an illuminating tale.
Anyhow, I wanted to be even-handed with Rush, or at least condemn him with his own words. I don't feel that more righteousness on my part is called for. I've heard plenty enough of my own voice railing against the sins of Psychiatry, and to tell the truth it feels a little unfair, underhand, in beating a man with the stick of his son's misery. But it is an illuminating tale.
Before criticising a person try walking a mile in their shoes. Then when you do criticise that person, you are a mile away.... and you have their shoes.