Ok the more I think about it, the more the sheer ubiquity of negative self-talk seems a *highly significant* cultural psychological feature of our society.
This mental pattern *means* something.
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this has been an ongoing curiosity of mine, i found this bit of a richard schwarz book very suggestive (click through and scroll down for more)
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"...but it is also important to consider the sociological development of what historian Phillip Cushman (1995) calls the “empty self” that arose in this country after World War II."
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my current vague sense of it is that WWII broke parenting in the US (idk about other countries). like the entire baby boomer generation developed attachment issues and those issues were passed on to gen X and so forth
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one other data point, too lazy to find screenshot: spectrum of ecstasy talks at one point about how some practices work fine on tibetans but not on westerners, gives the example of a metta practice that involves invoking a mother’s love and says many westerners can’t
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and warns that westerners trying to do vajrayana and looking for a spiritual teacher against actually secretly looking for a parent, which they claim is a western-specific problem that tibetans don’t have
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Huh I'm open to it, just seems really hard to sift for anything resembling truth here. I could see a lot of benefit in them claiming its true. Also open to it actually being true
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My crackpot theory, please read without woke implications: Western civilization is precisely built on privileging the external/material over the experiential
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