In a previous post, I wrote about how western countries now seem to worship people with overt mental illness. Three examples which covered a range of topics from totally irrational reactions to COVID-19 pandemic, rise of trans-activism and the bizarre cult of environmentalism, were used to show that this malaise is much more systemic than many might want to acknowledge. Let us expand this further to ask ourselves a bigger question: how did things reach the point where having a self-diagnosed mental illness, being an alleged victim of something or someone or belonging to a made-up minority group become desirable in the west during past two or three decades? And what does this say about the societies we are living in today?
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In a previous post, I wrote about how western countries now seem to worship people with overt mental illness. Three examples which covered a range of topics from totally irrational reactions to COVID-19 pandemic, rise of trans-activism and the bizarre cult of environmentalism, were used to show that this malaise is much more systemic than many might want to acknowledge. Let us expand this further to ask ourselves a bigger question: how did things reach the point where having a self-diagnosed mental illness, being an alleged victim of something or someone or belonging to a made-up minority group become desirable in the west during past two or three decades? And what does this say about the societies we are living in today?