<<<No matter how many self-help books and experts on talk shows insist that your feelings are "valid" and "appropriate," they cannot feel authentically like your own so long as they are mere reactions to someone else. If we allow the meaning of our lives to be subject to the vagaries of our reactions to the subtle emotional displays of others, we cannot help but fall into the present day quagmire of emotional pollution.

To feel genuine and empowered, like a person of substance, folks need to know more than whether their emotions are "appropriate." They need to know what they mean about the self. The meaning of our emotions cannot lie in how they feel, but in what they tell us about the current fidelity to your deepest values.>>>

Well, at last some one dares to state it upfront in a respectable magazine. The phenomenon, it seems, is nothing short of a cultural contagious disease pushing whole communities towards the lowest common denominator of human expression.

Well, at last some one dares to state it upfront in a respectable magazine. The phenomenon, it seems, is nothing short of a cultural contagious disease pushing whole communities towards the lowest common denominator of human expression.

Well said!