Posted on 08/23/2024 10:21:23 PM PDT by 11th_VA
There is a creeping sense that our society has turned upside-down. Healthy debate is replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence; violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as “toxic,” while men in dresses are celebrated in the public square. It feels as if we are in the midst of a society-wide mental breakdown.
… A strange new pattern of psychological dysfunction has infiltrated all our institutions, from humdrum bureaucracies to the highest offices. Wherever we turn, that creeping feeling sets in: our society is sick; our institutions are out of balance; our public life has been consumed by a cluster of disorders that appeal to our worst instincts …
Every historical period develops unique psychological characteristics that shape public life. After World War I, we had the “Lost Generation,” shell-shocked and disillusioned. In the mid-twentieth century, we entered the “Age of Anxiety,” characterized by a sense of existential dread in the face of the atomic bomb. And 50 years ago, we saw the rise of “the culture of narcissism,” which social critic Christopher Lasch described as a society obsessed with ego, desire, and self-image.
Today, we are witnessing the emergence of something new: the “Cluster B society.” Like the culture of narcissism, our digital age has distinct psychological traits, heavily influenced by the rise of personal pathologies and the power of social media. For this generation, the cameras are always on. The audience is always watching. And the old narcissism has transformed into frenzy, moral theatrics, emotional volatility, self-indulgence, and outbursts of violence.
Psychologists have captured the spirit of our modern culture in four specific psychopathologies that, together, make up the Cluster B personality disorders: the narcissist, the borderline, the histrionic, and the antisocial. (They also identify Cluster A and Cluster C groupings of personality disorders.) …
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Psychologists have captured the spirit of our modern culture in four specific psychopathologies that, together, make up the Cluster B personality disorders: the narcissist, the borderline, the histrionic, and the antisocial.
Bookmarked for reading.
I thought we were living in a Cluster F Society.
You're right - great speech by RFK...
BINGO!!!
Bookmark for later read.
40 years later...
A book I read about this came out about 10 years ago
Cluster F’ is more appropriate.
.bkmk
Thank you for that link.
Thoughts...well, he’s 70. The blessing of retrospect, and a body that’s calmed down a bit. I’ve always heeded my elders because, as Dad put it, “We know stuff.”
Seems like RFK finally “gets it.” Health matters, free speech matters, kids matter. We are being taxed into poverty, censored, and poisoned.
RFK is making a leap of faith to get behind DJT. It’s his only chance to put his agenda into practice and that agenda is simple: free speech, an end to the Ukraine war, and restoring American health. All three are at critical stage. Three crises.
And, I say when we find a Democrat who isn’t a woked-up socialist lunatic, we should welcome the chance to team up with them.
Kommy got an incredible 99% of the delegate hive vote, with only 52 delegates casting their vote as "present", the only other option on the ballot. The Demonrat Party Central Committee is possessed by the evil ghost of the USSR.
Good article!
Oldie, but goodie. Female leadership is sometimes very good (e.g. Margaret Thatcher), but too often it is overly emotional and too maternal.
Thanks for posting this.
Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet B Ship transportees?
An inevitable consequence of closing mental institutions decades ago. We have parents with mental illnesses breeding children with worse mental illnesses and have gone multiple generations doing so.
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