# Selfishness & Therapy Culture  ## Metadata - Author: [[Freddie deBoer]] - Full Title: Selfishness & Therapy Culture - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Freddie deBoer argues that therapy has shifted from a helpful tool to a culture that promotes selfishness and individual comfort over moral values like forgiveness. He believes this mindset undermines the importance of community and the need to put others before ourselves. DeBoer calls for a return to the original purpose of therapy, emphasizing that it should not justify selfish behavior or compel others to meet our emotional needs. - URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/selfishness-and-therapy-culture - Source File: web-only ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > That we might want to embrace moral virtues like forgiveness in the pursuit of benefits that can’t be measured with an Apple Watch goes unconsidered. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j44kg8s6aqrvcskfz2tezabw)) > I am convinced that the never-ending adult enculturation process we’re all undergoing all the time is far more directed by the minor influences of ordinary life - ambient cultural attitudes, day-to-day exposure to coworkers and friends and social media and television - than it is by abstract political, religious, and moral concepts. And the culture that we’re creating genuinely frightens me. Between said capitalist selfishness, helicopter parenting, social media platforms that inherently reward narcissism, and this whole bonkers quasi-feminist woowoo school of aspirational self help, there’s a never-ending supply of messages telling impressionable people that they should put themselves before others, inverting the most basic human moral principle. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j44m639ry221v8gxkyfv3190))