A popular lyricist, Anna Russel gently mocked the “me generation” with its forms of explaining away all the strange behavior:
I went to my psychiatrist to be psychoanalyzed to find out why I killed the cat and blacked my husband’s eyes. He laid me on a downy couch to see what he could find, and here is what he dredged up from my subconscious mind: When I was one, my mommy hid my dolly in a trunk, and so it follows, naturally, that is why I am a drunk. When I was two, I saw my father kiss the maid one day, and that is why I suffer now from kleptomania. At three, I had the feeling of ambivalence towards my brothers, and so it follows naturally I poisoned all my lovers. But I am happy; now I’ve learned the lesson this has taught: Everything I do that’s wrong is someone elses’s fault!
– Taken from the book, “The God Who Is There” by D. A. Carson