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,... See more

The inwardly turned, narcissistic ego with purely subjective access to the world is not the cause of social disintegration but the result of a fateful process at the objective level. Everything that binds and connects is disappearing. There are hardly any shared values or symbols, no common narratives that unite people.