. >> so the decline of the shared religious moral horizon that text of philip reese's book with the rise of the therapeutic society that's exactly what he said. previously went to a priest or a pastor to be counseled about anxiety about your marriage or your job and that would be decline of formal religion to play that kind of a roll, psychoanalyst and psychologist and the state itself took on that therapeutic role and self-esteem was the central issue the role of a therapeutic society is to raise people's self-esteem that is the inherent contradiction of the therapeutic mission because if everybody has that is due to certain things and everybody should have it because everybody should feel good than everybody gets an award because that's what makes them feel good that i actually have a whole chapter on stanford university that i didn't put in the book. [laughter] but there is a quotation from 1986 i believe jesse jackson came to stanford to try to get rid of the western culture requirements and there is a quotation from the leader of the black student union leader pushing for this and s