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The psychological sickness manifested in modernity has brought us a
spiritual death. From an early age we are taught to forsake our internal
values and creativity to subject ourselves to external forces insistent
on putting their ideas in our heads. Everything we feel and know inside
is gradually replaced with values originating from media and education
until we have completely lost our ability for independent, creative, or
critical thought. After years of this process, we lose our identities
and internal equilibrium and become dependent on the external.
We chase after entertainment as a goal because we have nothing left inside that keeps us happy. We value what others think higher than what we think. We are easily coerced by others because of how education teaches us to yield to anyone acting as an authority figure. We act in ways that are harmful to ourselves. We lose all ability to determine value - and prefer old patterns and routines to the pursuit of positive opportunities. In general we are unaware of all this, but go on acting out the ritual events of our lives without introspection and without self-criticism so we can avoid the discomfort that we would uncover and sometimes find difficult to resolve. Rather than face what might hurt us when we discover it, we choose denial - and deny even that we are hurt most of all by this approach to difficult problems in life. What we propose is an approach called deprogramming in which we must force ourselves to become aware of what has dropped below the scope of our conscious reflection, running as our automatic programming while we are oblivious to its functioning. After we become aware, we can evaluate how we operate in an effort to deprogram our detrimental patterns so that we may become healthy and strong again.
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