Tag Archives: Emptiness

Atheism, Emptiness and Suicide: We have lost the Recipe for Inner Peace

Failing modern Western thought:We have lost the Recipe for Inner Peace CNN

  Suicide is an epidemic in the West. Among Americans, the numbers are alarming, with suicide as the 10th leading cause of death. Between 1999-2016, the rate increased 30 %, writes Jesse Lee Peterson. Emptiness and Suicide: The reasons for suicide are many, but particularly white people kill themselves, according to studies. Between 2006 and 2016, the suicide rate for …

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The Psychology of Totalitarianism: Crisis narrative, destructive groupthink, free-floating anxiety

State Power and Totalitarianism: Minneapolis, Floyd

  Professor of Clinical Psychology, Mattias Desmet’s book The Psychology of Totalitarianism is well worth reading: The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that …

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