He noted that he has many friends here, and hoped to make many more as a member. Both he and Mr. Weir were accepted into membership. The Society entered Committee Reports and Mr. Van Meter rose for the absent Mr. Hortman to give the Finance Committee report. The report was accepted by the Society. The Society then entered New Business and Mr. Shumaker took the floor to say that rationalization and lack of responsibility are major problems in society today.
Psychology is poison.
Respectfully submitted, Michael J. Shumaker Mr. Pyrdum agreed with the presenter regarding the problem of responsibility, but said that psychology allows us to deal with things that we have no control over. He countered that you cannot live in a system where you don't ascribe blame and acknowledge some lack of free will. Relating an obviously damaging experience with a school psychologist, he noted that psychology declared itself a science in the 1970's with little justification. Arguing that psychology is simply the attempt to understand one another beyond the surface of words and actions, he declared that psychology is always being practiced and is essential to human relations. Ms. Ramirez rose to relate how psychology has allowed her to overcome her personal difficulties arising from a trauma in her childhood.