It's Very Hard To Know

The Capacity For People To Kid Themselves Is Huge. Living On Illusions Or Delusions, And The Re-establishing Of These Illusions Or Delusions Requires A Big Effort To Keep Them From Being Seen Through. But A Very Old Idea Is At Work Behind Our Current State Of Affairs: Enantiodromia, Or The Greek Notion Of Things Turning Into Their Opposite.

It's The Only Way We Can Get Out Of Being So Human-centered: To Remain Attached To Something Other Than Humans.

Psychotherapy Makes Every Problem A Subjective, Inner Problem. And That's Not Where The Problems Come From. They Come From The Environment, The Cities, The Economy, The Racism. They Come From Architecture, School Systems, Capitalism, Exploitation. They Come From Many Places That Psychotherapy Does Not Address. Psychotherapy Theory Turns It All On You: You Are The One Who Is Wrong.

Yes, We Worship The Idea Of The "self-made Man" - Otherwise We'd Go On Strike Against Bill Gates Having All That Money! We Worship That Idea.

Attention Is The Cardinal Psychological Virtue. On It Depends Perhaps The Other Cardinal Virtues, For There Can Hardly Be Faith Nor Hope Nor Love For Anything Unless It First Receives Attention.