Spirituality

The Solution

Solution

There is a handful of underlying problems causing common mental disorders but reflecting on our expertise, the intensity of effects and the level of negligence, we have decided to limit our attention to confronting affective polarisation and the validation of extrinsic goals.

Affective Polarisation

As Frazer et al (2022) record, affective polarisation is not only detrimental to the socio-political wellbeing of society, but it has a direct link to the deterioration of the ultimate mental wellbeing of people.

Affective polarisation is the outcome of repressive otherization and social fragmentation, and it is expressed through violations such as marginalisation, bullying, discrimination, hate speech, bigotry, and violent extremism. However, these hostile behaviours exacerbate depression, anxiety disorders, panic disorder, PTSD, eating disorders, and substance use disorder which are prevalent common mental disorders.

Validation of Extrinsic Goals

The social pattern of validating and approving extrinsic goals as the pinnacle of flourishment and excellence in contemporary society has become the prevalent cause of common mental disorders. People especially the younger generation are being pressured to avariciously pursue financial success, luxurious lifestyles, material wealth, enhancement of physical appearance to meet beauty standards, and the accumulation of awards and accolades for fame and prestige.

Social media as the free market algorithmic apparatus is the perfect platform for showcasing health, wellbeing and liberation of otherness. However, this entices people into posturing for approval and validation through likes and comments; they exhibit excessive use of physical enhancements, body augmentation, lewdness, conspicuous consumption, and displays of financial resources as their expressions of health and wellbeing.

The Solution

The solution is to establish programs that can cultivate within the organismic structure of society the agency that inspires awareness in people to reject the pressures and influences of extrinsic goals of capitalism and the corruptions and inhibitions of the spirit of interconnectedness which is incited by the us against them ethos.

This implies the need to cultivate core civic values of equality, diversity, charitability, serviceability, responsibility, and accountability in society. But it takes only the agency of interconnectedness (the AoIn) to successfully cultivate these core civic values. Therefore, our focus is to cultivate the AoIn through its charisma and virtues.