* Psychiatrists, psychologists, and counselors don’t know more about our behavior than we do; they just get paid for being wrong. The transaction is transitive. We may believe that we pay them because we believe in them, but the inverse is the more true: we pay for the right to believe in them. As we do with the fortune-teller. We find the same mechanism in the theater. The audience suspends its rational judgment and will not do so unless they have made some sacrifice (the price of admission). The price convinces them of the worth of their sacrifice. Curiously, the ticket price is absolutely
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