Culture

There's been a strong movement in the past 5-10 years to abolish shame. In all, it's been a really positive and powerful movement that has given folks permission to reclaim suppressed or denied parts of themselves into more honest and empowered expressions. And...there's increasing evidence that we might have overshot the mark. We're veering into the realm of the shameless, and it's crippling our society.

TRIGGER WARNING: hopscotching through all the landmines of the culture wars here. This is hopefully a safe space to have unsafe conversations, and we hope to provoke all sides equally! Before penning righteous email replies, please read the whole thing, and see if we can’t all meet on higher ground on the other side?

How spirituality has been so thoroughly captured by lifestyle influencers, instagram shamans and seven-figure manifesters. They're not optimized for Truth, or even remotely interested in it. They're optimized for fitness––likes, clicks and bucks. And that works way better.

How is it that so many tweets, YouTube comments and that sad sad place where reason goes to die, Telegram are certain? And not just certain. Absolutely certain they're certain!‍ In two words, egregores and schizo-genesis.