The Polythróna with Hadrian Archo

  Originally Written: 4/12/2016 Is it possible that a lot of the mental health problems seen today are a result of the increasing complexity of the self? To make it clearer, do people feel or become less in touch with themselves simply because psychology and the culture of self-help has made the self harder to be in touch with by adding a gross amount of unnecessary complexity? Think about it, if simplifying problems make them easier to solve, then simplifying oneself should make it easier to fix oneself. It should support both the point of the blissful idiot who knows nothing and the sage who has devoted his life to a single frame of thought and self-characterization. 2021 Additions: It seems that I was on to something back then when I first started journaling. I think this random thought finds more support as we continue in the American narrative. For example, we can easily understand that at least 2 major points of the self used to be given the moment someone was born. The first...