Home › Columns › Essay › The demoralized mind - Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well? asks John F Schumaker.

https://newint.org/columns/essays/2016/04/01/psycho-spiritual-crisis/

Julian Harrow shared this article which resonates with the many people I've met through the course of my work, who show such a huge lack of worth on their own creativity, that they are not musical, or artisitc. We seem to be living in an era of embedded low self esteem of pandemic proportions.

"Research shows that, in contrast to earlier times, most people today are unable to identify any sort of philosophy of life or set of guiding principles. Without an existential compass, the commercialized mind gravitates toward a ‘philosophy of futility’, as Noam Chomsky calls it, in which people feel naked of power and significance beyond their conditioned role as pliant consumers. Lacking substance and depth, and adrift from others and themselves, the thin and fragile consumer self is easily fragmented and dispirited."