Post-individualism

Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals

I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.

If you suffer, the fault resides within you, and so too does the solution: You need to learn how to think, feel, and act differently

You are not part of the human race, you are the result of it.

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,