https://barelyablog.com/its-all-so-emotional-the-origins-of-our-degenerate-therapeutic-culture/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/its-all-so-emotional-the-origins-of-our-degenerate-therapeutic-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-26236 Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:44:02 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=151145#comment-26236 “A thousand things should have been said in ten words”, one of my favorite quotes. That’s how I feel whenever I read your work, and never more so than on subjects like this. Short version, I’m about as far from atheist as you can get, nevertheless I’m also vehemently nonreligious, and this column illustrates why. Once a person starts embracing ANY religion, it’s a short leap to embrace lunacy like believing in the tenets and salvation of psychotherapy. I have no idea of your personal background or ethnicity, and I sincerely have no desire to offend, but frankly I also find the Jews are at least as “disturbed” as any group, and their influence on America, especially the legacy and values of the founders, is questionable to put it politely. Say what you will about the Christians, and they probably deserve any criticism you care to level at them, the rise of our decadent and corrupt modern culture and Jewish influence have been too closely matched to be mere coincidence. Oh well, at least they don’t have the mindless nature of Islam, I ought to be grateful for that.
I do think there is a great truth in “An unexamined life is not worth living”, and it’s possible for a human being to develop, but only with extreme deliberate and conscious efforts. It’s a pursuit that has endless opportunities for self-deception. Modern religion and psychology seem to both be dead-ends in that endeavor, they have devolved into a soothing balm designed to excuse and enable weakness, not conquer it.
Taken as a whole, I find myself thinking, “Who ARE these people!?”, but I freely admit I’ve never fit into modern mass culture and society very well, so I suppose I’m the outlier,

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