A Belief System for the 21st Century

Surface level close up on an abstract engineering blueprint drawing of blue striped gear mechanism, with shiny metallic gears in the foreground

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“The new form of the problem of identity”

The individual is forced to turn inward; he becomes obsessed with the new form of the problem of identity, namely, Even-if-I-know-who-I-am, I-have-no-significance. I am unable to influence others. The next step is apathy. And the step following that is violence. For no human being can stand the perpetually numbing experiene of his own powerlessness.

Rollo May, 1969 from the book Love and Will

© 1969 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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