Many seemingly loosing a grip on reality these days. Seem to me they have some basic insight experience and over interpret it badly. Your thoughts please @mistermircea
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2/ The average human being cannot tolerate insecurity and not knowing what to expect. For decades now, the pace of change in the world far exceeds our capability to properly adapt to it.
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3/ A stable social order, a trust that tomorrow will resemble today, a shared system of beliefs and values that enable community and progress towards a common direction is a thing of the past.
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4/ And, as far as I can tell, it is never coming back. Not on a large-scale at least. Fragmentation will only continue. The rails are set, and the train will only follow along them.
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5/ People are losing their minds, and will continue to, because a place in the world, an identity, a purpose, are no longer a guarantee, no longer provided by society, externally.
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6/ The human need for significance and meaning far outweighs the importance of any other need. Absent of the means for significance and meaning, one feels without their identity.
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7/ The arrested development of many people in the West, coupled with the lack of external stabilizers, create an inner void, a fear, a deep insecurity. They find no ground to stand on.
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8/ When your environment denies you the means of individuation, as is the case for most Millenials, you are denied the benefit of personal experience, first-hand knowledge, maturity.
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This seem to be a pre-enlightenment issue (where most of us are). How would you relate it to such an assumption?
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