What's wrong

[processnotes]

Ask anyone to give you their life sob story, and they'll probably describe some sort of personal struggle with some trauma or a person from their past or present.

What many people don't acknowledge is that they often feel like "a fish out of the water" in their larger environment. And those who do (acknowledge it) and seek help from some psycotherapist (not me, trolls ) , are often labeled as 'personality disordered' and asked to work on restructuring their personalities and on molding them in the image of their environment.

But there's something odd about our Western society: one feels both free and constrained at the same time. The penny dropped for me as to why that is, after I listened to this guy (as quoted in my next post):

 

[processnotes]

"There is something in the Western American culture: it doesn't allow, it shuns the individual... I'm talking about the formal culture.

Obviously, when you turn On the TV or internet, you are going to see a world awash in hedonism.
But when i say formal culture, i mean the things that school teachers, big business leaders, the politicians, say, it had almost uniformally been, for 300 years purely Puritanical."


Thadeus Russell: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x4YxSGFqOH8

 

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This guy too:

"Education has become a site of policies that devalue learning, collapse education into training, or they are viewed as potential sites for neoliberal modes of governance.

Neoliberalism is a policy that suggests that education is not about creating critically informed young people. It’s really about training for the workplace. It tends to promote a kind of political and ideological conformity. it’s a depoliticizing process – and it’s also oppressive, because it removes from education any sense of vision that suggests that education is really about constructing a future that doesn’t repeat the worst dimensions of the present, that can see beyond the horizons of the alleged practical and possible."

Henry Giroux http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26885-henry-giroux-on-the-rise-of-neoliberalism


Or The Alienation and Demoralization of the Modern Man, in a neoliberal society in which everything (people included) is commodified.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Why would you ever ask someone that?

 

[processnotes]

Why would you ever ask someone that?

I'm hoping that you, as a Saint will give me the answers that I seek as a Seeker.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I'm hoping that you, as a Saint will give me the answers that I seek as a Seeker.

I'm guessing 1st year psych major home on break. No 1: quit school. It's a waste of money.

 

[processnotes]

Aah, and when he was referring to "Puritanism", Thadeus Russel wasn't referring to the Religious understanding that many people have of it ...

He was referring to the puritanical /protestant work ethic: cut throat, unsympathetic leave no prisoners. Which currently cuts across all political parties (be they Leftist Rightists) and all Religious or nonReligious/atheist parties.