Given that we are so quick to turn vices into diseases and conveniences into sins, Victor Davis Hanson diagnoses my candidate for treatment - the therapeutic mind:

"The therapeutic mind is utopian in nature, and so history is linear, not cyclical, in its constant evolution to perfection. Poverty, war, and chaos are not due to inherent human failings, but to 'them' — usually a selfish subset of the population that has taken resources away from society and hamstrung it by denying all its children their destinies."

Read the rest at NRO.

One more excerpt from Hanson's must-read essay:

"One can never prove the therapeutic view wrong, since it sees no limit to what the state should provide the individual. What was not spent, rather than what was, is always the subject of debate. A reduction in a projected budget increase is tantamount to a heartless slashing."

Thanks, David.