In the words of Dr. Tom Finucane:

“In our pursuit of better living we’ve allowed comfort to calcify our natural movements and strengths. Without conscious discomfort and purposeful exercise—a forceful push against comfort creep—we’ll only continue to become weaker and sicker.”

Carl Jung understood this dilemma well when he wrote that “this new form of existence,” speaking of the modern mass society, “produced an individual who was unstable, insecure, and suggestible.”

Jung warned that if the individual is discounted and subordinated by society, he is vulnerable to the influence of the state and other mass movements to... See more

We’re wired for small, close-knit communities, but instead we’re lost in the chaos of a massive, impersonal society