The Discovered Self: Identity in the Therapeutic Age

If you think people in general have gone crazy in the last decade or so, you’re right.  Some do ok and some barely have their heads above water, but millions wallow in mass delusion about what a human being even is.  

Social contagion of mental illness is not unprecedented in the history of the world.  What is unprecedented is the shift from a solid objective foundation for truth, to a shifting flow of subjective, irrational emotion.  It is a worldview shift, across society, casting us adrift now in ceaseless flow, with no land in sight.  

The new dispensation is a self-care therapeutic mentality.  It invites us to imagine an innocent emerging authentic self, rather than perceiving that the line between good and evil cuts through every heart.  If we imagine there is no real moral structure in the universe, our failures are seen as psychological disorder, an inescapable self-imposed identity.  It leaves us to walk through the world in perpetual victimhood, always vulnerable to psychological abuse by an oppressive world.  This is bad ideology that has become a social contagion, spreading like a virus.    

There is hope.  We can break out of the mind-trap.  But first we have to understand it.