Holiday in Cambodia

I've been around some significantly damaged people recently, people that seem to lack basic survival skills and a large number of rather self-centered complaints. I've started to think that neuroses are basically bullshit. I've heard several arguments to the effect that our culture breeds low-grade psychological problems, and I believe it. I think the main problem with the people that I've been around is that they've never been forced to take care of themselves. No matter how badly they fuck up, their parents will take care of things. And what they need is to have that taken away. To be forced to survive on their own, to fail and feel the consequences of that failure. In short they need, as the Dead Kennedys put it, a holiday in Cambodia.