Modern psychology is framed as the last defense against a suicidal person's impulses but this is framing it too charitably. Modern psychology is all about the atomized individual. It is wrong to need people as it is wrong to have people to need you. This weakens...
Time to Confess my Psyns
I confess that I have psynned in thought, word, and deed. I confess that I have said and done things that modern psychology deems "unhealthy". I confess that I have not lived life as an atomized individual and have been less productive, less successful, and less whole...
Vulnerability
This should be required watching for any man tempted into the trap of vulnerability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWr8bKgJ8IM
Ratchet
Things in modern life works like a ratchet. It only turns one way. I volunteer and get next to nothing for it, not a scrap of social capital to be accepted and included with people who could lift me from my sorry state. Then due to my disability I take from the...
Dismiss
One of the must gut-wrenching things modern psychology does is dismiss that which it pathologizes. For example, let's say you're lonely and you miss someone so bad it is occupying your mind too much. Modern psychology posits that you are failing to live up to their...
Modern Psychology’s Most Powerful Side
On balance for the average person modern psychology does more harm than good. This is because the facets of modern psychology that do harm are free and pervasive while the ones that help are expensive. This makes the poor disadvantaged in a way that not many people...
Peak Happiness
A lot of life is a trade off. A lot of it is a zero sum game between you and others' happiness. People would agree that ideally we'd want peak happiness. But in order to achieve that we would have to efficiently balance the trade off between what makes us happy verses...
No Goodness, No Hope
It seems that society has shifted where you used to have to give an answer for the hope that was in you (1 Peter 3:15) where now it's expected of you that you give an answer for the hope you don't have. For me there is a real good reason for this because I have a...
Is Man Basically Good?
I've gotten a lot of flack from liberals for not believing man is basically good. My experience has shown that a good portion of people are shitty when you need them most. Of course with all my pathologies I'm not one that generally attracts good people in the first...
Modern Psychology and Men
It is heartbreaking to see the rise of deaths of despair by men without college degrees who just can't hack it in our modern system. Psychology claims to have the solution and I think it can be of limited help but there is something intractable about men's problems...
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