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Our collective nervous breakdown

25 June 2020

1:40 AM

25 June 2020

1:40 AM

It’s being sold by some as a glorious revolution, but what Western culture is really experiencing is a garden variety nervous breakdown. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it began, but it’s certainly well progressed, wouldn’t you agree?

The latest mania for gathering in furious mobs to denounce and expunge reminders of our past is what therapists call transference.

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