I try hard to stay open-minded about the many strange turns the human mind can take in its conception of the world and how it might get there. And still I find

I try hard to stay open-minded about the many strange turns the human mind can take in its conception of the world and how it might get there. And still I find the title more than a tad melodramatic. His is not a problem that couldn't be fixed by a brief excursion into any of hundreds depressed towns in America - let alone developing nations, where jobs are scarce that pay even remotely as well as what the author is evidently qualified for. A little perspective rarely hurts.