Western society has had little success in recreating institutions and forms of solidarity to replace those that declined in importance in the past 100 years, such as the family or the church.
This wholesale loss of group membership is manifest in a heightened desolation of liberal autonomy.
The rise in mental health diagnosis is a sign of this. It is the new market society expressed in emotional terms, a privatisation and categorisation of all human distress. Its costs have passed out of the community and on to the balance sheet of the state.
Hmmm…maybe we should ask Friedrich Nietzche.
Good point!