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To my mind, if we are going to say that any kind of “culture” was responsible for Rodger’s rampage…then we might want to examine the impact of mainstream therapy culture rather than obsessing over the fringe misogyny culture he might have dabbled with.
We know a handful of things about Rodger. One is that he visited therapists. Another is that he was full of self-regard, was incredibly self-obsessed, and was utterly outraged when people, especially women, didn’t treat him with the love and respect he felt he deserved.
It is possible that these two things are connected, maybe even intimately connected. For one of the main, and most terrifying, achievements of the modern cult of therapy has been to churn out a generation of people completely focused on the self and in constant need of validation from others; a generation that thinks nothing of spending hours examining and talking about their inner lives and who regard their own self-esteem as sacrosanct, something which it is unacceptable for anyone ever to dent or disrespect.
Could Rodger’s fury at the world for failing to flatter his self-image as a good, civilized guy be a product of the therapy industry, of the therapy world’s cultivation of a new tyrannical form of narcissism where individuals demand constant genuflection at the altar of their self-esteem?
Hat tip to blogger friend Rick.
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“Tyrannical narcissism.” That is a great turn of phrase. To the glossary!
- nightfly | 05/29/2014 @ 06:42‘d like you all to consider for a moment, “What sort of person seeks to entrench themselves in the professional mental health industry?”
- CaptDMO | 05/30/2014 @ 07:20This includes the drug/alcohol “rehabilitation” arena as well.
Now consider the growing industry of “racial reeducation” experts.
First, create the “problem”(not enough of the “right” people with “credentials”). Next, other peoples money for “research” (any ol’ “data” will do). Third, judicial “education” retreats for prosecution “alternatives”.(tax deductble of course). And then….Legislation, “for the women, children, and other “special” considerations”.
Which oddly brings us back to other peoples money.
Let’s throw in a progressively long and convoluted list of Union “labor” rules for job security, no matter WHAT, just to be “fair”.
“What sort of person seeks to entrench themselves in the professional mental health industry?”
Control freaks.
I asked a Psy.D. once if her “testing” had any sort of record of making a negative finding, or if it was even capable of such a thing. She decided on the spot I was a “bully.”
Yup. That’s scientifikul. Fer sure.
- mkfreeberg | 05/31/2014 @ 16:36