THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - The Unscratchable Itch
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Culture The Unscratchable Itch Human nature’s affinity for complaint just won’t go away. Without complaint, journalists would have no work—and, come to think of it, daily conversation would be much impoverished, if not stopped altogether. We are enjoined to count our blessings, of course, but as La Rochefoucauld pointed out more than three centuries ago, it is easier to give good advice than to take it. In the contest between complaint and counting one’s blessings, therefore, complaint wins every time. In any case, the bad is more interesting than the good, as many a writer has found. Tolstoy said that every happy family is…Open
