Pop-psychology is a Scourge

I believe (general/) pop-psychology plays a significant role in increasing interpersonal dismissiveness and perpetuating ethical failures.

People relate to "psychotherapy" alot like how I imagine folks during medieval times related to the church e.g. "Oh you're afflicted? Don't wallow in your condition, go to the priest and earn your absolution....Why are you still afflicted? You must simply love your affliction, you just want to spread it

It's the ultimate handmaiden to Capital and corporatized thinking

It's completely ideologically captured

It kills nuance and complexity/contradictions about the human condition and promotes naive convictions such as "we are social animals= our sociability is the ultimate redeeming quality= people are ultimately good for the most part." It encourages scapegoating,

Janet Malcolm's pithy critique was on point when she said “The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil – it is merely a restatement of the mystery