It's interesting that in an era where everything is psychologized to the degree that solely psychological arguments are made for major swaths of civilization, we are living in an era of the highest mental illness recorded history.
As an observation based on the data, it would definitely suggest that either the psychological way of looking at the world is not actually true and so actions taken upon that foundation don't have the effect that we expect, or something else is so bad in the world that in spite of being overdosed on treatment we are still worse than that we've ever been.
Some people think it's because we are poorer than we've been, but humans have been in desperate grinding poverty for most of their existence as a species and weren't this bad. You can go to places where people still live in desperate grinding poverty but they aren't mentally ill the way that Western Civilization is.
I tried to avoid the use of the word modern because the modern period was actually a very long time ago now. The modern period was the era of heavy industrialization and the massive increase in quality of life leading up to the world wars. That was our. Of high social cohesion, where people really felt like their civilizations had a powerful future. The combination of world war 1, the great depression, and world war II and all of the horrors that came with all three of those ended up sort of becoming a repudiation for western civilization of the modernist mindset, and so the postmodernist period began, and whereas the modernist worldview was practical and masculine and scientific, the postmodernist world was in many ways a rejection of these things -- one of the core philosophies of postmodernism is that nothing is real, and that many ways the world is made up of social constructions that may have at some point been based on reality but that reality is long gone, just like a save icon being made up of floppy disk that generations of kids have never seen. The modernist period had a respect for the wisdom of our ancestors, and everyone became well versed in the classics such as the works of the Greeks. The postmodernist period tried to reject that ancient wisdom as well as all common sense.
Men do not like being compared to dogs, but in the grand scheme of life on Earth the two have a lot more in common than they have different. A large dog with lots of energy needs to be given some kind of labor. If you don't walk your dog and run out their energy, they will make tasks for themselves, and without leadership to tell them what to do, the tasks would be things that are unproductive or anti productive such as digging up the yard, tearing up the furniture, barking at people passing in the street and trying to bite the mailman. In the same way, lacking meaning because it has been systematically eliminated by the ideology of the era takes all of the reasons to live away from humans, and then in the in the same way that the dog goes crazy so does the man.
I've noticed that ever since my son was born, and I made the decision that my goal was to try to raise him to be as great as possible, my mental health has never been more solid. I have a mission now, and one of the things that I had to do very early on was reject postmodernism -- within the first week of my son being alive I realize that I had a little voice in the back of my head telling me to stop saying heartfelt things because they could be taken as double or triple entendres. Shutting down that valueless but hyperanalytical part of my brain (or at least not allowing it to dominate every thought that pops into my head) ended up being a huge weight off. We can laugh when someone says something that is a double entendre, but our entire society has become based upon it and based upon analyzing things from six different angles in a heartbeat, all supervised by a moralism process that Warren does not to make judgments about anyone or anything.
Tl;Dr bro it's just a meme don't overthink it.
As an observation based on the data, it would definitely suggest that either the psychological way of looking at the world is not actually true and so actions taken upon that foundation don't have the effect that we expect, or something else is so bad in the world that in spite of being overdosed on treatment we are still worse than that we've ever been.
Some people think it's because we are poorer than we've been, but humans have been in desperate grinding poverty for most of their existence as a species and weren't this bad. You can go to places where people still live in desperate grinding poverty but they aren't mentally ill the way that Western Civilization is.
I tried to avoid the use of the word modern because the modern period was actually a very long time ago now. The modern period was the era of heavy industrialization and the massive increase in quality of life leading up to the world wars. That was our. Of high social cohesion, where people really felt like their civilizations had a powerful future. The combination of world war 1, the great depression, and world war II and all of the horrors that came with all three of those ended up sort of becoming a repudiation for western civilization of the modernist mindset, and so the postmodernist period began, and whereas the modernist worldview was practical and masculine and scientific, the postmodernist world was in many ways a rejection of these things -- one of the core philosophies of postmodernism is that nothing is real, and that many ways the world is made up of social constructions that may have at some point been based on reality but that reality is long gone, just like a save icon being made up of floppy disk that generations of kids have never seen. The modernist period had a respect for the wisdom of our ancestors, and everyone became well versed in the classics such as the works of the Greeks. The postmodernist period tried to reject that ancient wisdom as well as all common sense.
Men do not like being compared to dogs, but in the grand scheme of life on Earth the two have a lot more in common than they have different. A large dog with lots of energy needs to be given some kind of labor. If you don't walk your dog and run out their energy, they will make tasks for themselves, and without leadership to tell them what to do, the tasks would be things that are unproductive or anti productive such as digging up the yard, tearing up the furniture, barking at people passing in the street and trying to bite the mailman. In the same way, lacking meaning because it has been systematically eliminated by the ideology of the era takes all of the reasons to live away from humans, and then in the in the same way that the dog goes crazy so does the man.
I've noticed that ever since my son was born, and I made the decision that my goal was to try to raise him to be as great as possible, my mental health has never been more solid. I have a mission now, and one of the things that I had to do very early on was reject postmodernism -- within the first week of my son being alive I realize that I had a little voice in the back of my head telling me to stop saying heartfelt things because they could be taken as double or triple entendres. Shutting down that valueless but hyperanalytical part of my brain (or at least not allowing it to dominate every thought that pops into my head) ended up being a huge weight off. We can laugh when someone says something that is a double entendre, but our entire society has become based upon it and based upon analyzing things from six different angles in a heartbeat, all supervised by a moralism process that Warren does not to make judgments about anyone or anything.
Tl;Dr bro it's just a meme don't overthink it.
I don’t think he has written anything substantial about this yet, but Scott Alexander has mentioned suspecting that mental health awareness campaigns actually make people more mentally unhealthy, not less.
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