i really think too much introspection is a disease, one that has really sunk its teeth into millennials/gen-z. i see it all the time: people who get addicted to therapy because they love talking about themselves, people constantly engaged in insipid self-reflection, obsessed with their horoscopes, consuming nothing but self-help literature/content, constantly checking their sleep quality/food/water apps. when does self-care and “self-mythologizing” become garden variety narcissism
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We are living through a pandemic of selfing — rampant self-celebration that mistakes applause for connection, likes for love. Social media companies are capitalizing on our native need for affirmation, exploiting our compromised immunity to manipulation at every turn: algorithms prioritizing selfies over sunflowers, algorithms amplifying the word I... See more
Maria Popova • unselfing.social
I see in so much of therapy culture young people desperate to be loved and trying to train themselves out of it. I see so much abandonment pain. We are reparenting ourselves. We are self-soothing. We are healing our inner child. Nobody is asking why. Please will somebody step in and say to this generation that maybe they don’t need more self-love,
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Our around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cultural — when combined with diminished attention spans, smaller and smaller chunks of content, and baked-in cross-platform imperatives to remain emotionally removed from any given person, place, or ev... See more