>>20810642I think there's an element of cognitive dissonance. when it reaches extreme levels it produces some pretty bizarre behaviour in people as they try to believe stuff that their lived experience explicitly refutes,
everyone has the potential for all manner of psychiatric disorders, some are more easily triggered than others, some might manage to go an entire lifetime where they're not put under the sort of pressure that could cause the onset of anything,
but currently everyone is under a lot of pressure, people crack up, they have depression, anxiety, psychotic episodes and may experience paranoid schizophrenia,
Carl Jung spoke of metanoia, a mental breakdown where you can't keep up the pretence that everything is ok, you have to fall apart, breakdown your ego, confront your expectations, reassess them and create new more realistic expectations that you can live with,
Jung considers metanoia to be a sort of rebooting of the mind where you attempt to self repair, it shouldn't be blocked, it's a thing people need to go through to be able to become at peace with themselves,
I think the West is in the process of going through a collective metanoia, society as is isn't working for us and we need to find a more rational way forward,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanoia_(psychology) 