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The Relationship Between Political Appearance and Mental Illness
The people who have the highest rates of diagnosable mental illness currently are young liberal women. The identity that they've been offered, which is this fragmented subjective hedonistic identity, is actually so dysfunctional as an identity that it produces anxiety and hopelessness. It also doesn't give them any goal of value to strive for in the future much less an unifying identity. Those are the alternatives. And I do think this is one of the places that your book really shines is that that's exemplified by the proclivity of modern institutions of higher endeavor to emulate themselves on the power of idiot reflexive guilt.