Fascinating post. A few things that came up for me. We're living in an age of ubiquitous self-diagnosed mental illness, with self-diagnosed anxiety being perhaps the most common. I've wondered if that self-diagnosed anxiety is a certain lack of resilience that is taught and rewarded by our current culture. And, conversely, our current social media culture has demonstrably harmed the emotional and mental health of people, especially younger folks. Now I'm wondering if the rise in American anxiety, whether self-diagnosed or not, is related to the decrease in religious faith? What does the anxiety of the finite and infinite mean in an increasingly-secular country?
Fascinating post. A few things that came up for me. We're living in an age of ubiquitous self-diagnosed mental illness, with self-diagnosed anxiety being perhaps the most common. I've wondered if that self-diagnosed anxiety is a certain lack of resilience that is taught and rewarded by our current culture. And, conversely, our current social media culture has demonstrably harmed the emotional and mental health of people, especially younger folks. Now I'm wondering if the rise in American anxiety, whether self-diagnosed or not, is related to the decrease in religious faith? What does the anxiety of the finite and infinite mean in an increasingly-secular country?