There is no shame in being 'psychologically naive' - what we're doing in our culture is enforcing this state by trying to say that our ridiculous naivety in psychological matters is actually 'knowledge'. It isn't knowledge, however - it's a cultural artifact that is supported by ream upon ream of vapid pseudoscience...

Communication isn't what we think it is.

Any social interactions is usually an ambush - it's an ambush because what's generally going on is control not communication. We're being given someone else's mind, someone else's world-view, and this is control rather than communication. Conditioned human beings CAN'T communicate (because they aren't free to do so) - all we can do when we have been conditioned is transmit this conditioning, this programming, on to others (if we can get away with it)...

Communication can only occur on a level playing field (which is to say, when no one voice is given greater weight of validity than any other), and this is precisely what NEVER happens in society! Society is all about conforming to the dominant narrative and the only way to be granted a voice is by proving our conformity, by earning the right to have a voice as result of 'successful social adaption'. There is no communication in the social sphere therefore - only the endless repetition of the 'approved formula' - and in this case we can echo Carlos Castaneda in saying that 'the Predator has given us its mind'...

Self-blaming is a mechanical reflex that we are powerless to stop. It isn't really us blaming ourselves however, it's the thinking mind. The thinking mind is a mechanical reflex that controls us rather than vice versa.  

Self-blaming is a mechanical reflex that we are powerless to stop. It isn't really us blaming ourselves however, it's the thinking mind. The thinking mind is a mechanical reflex that controls us rather than vice versa. 

To belong to a group we must conform to its rules, but this means we are 'putting the rules above ourselves', and doing this leaves us 'wide open to being abused and exploited by the system'... 

Mental health and 'autonomy' are one and the same thing. Power compromises autonomy - it eventually destroys it entirely - and because we live in a world that is BASED on control, that is ALL ABOUT control, we completely disregard the whole topic. We won't talk about it...