Mental Health Support

"We need to have an honest conversation about culture - and that's not going to happen. About the lies we tell ourselves. Puritans. The Old West. Pioneers. Duels. Exceptionalism. Isolationist warriors. Peacemakers. Winners. The Best. We lie to ourselves. All the time. Our resolute unwillingness to look at what we really tell each other, our children, the world - and the contradictions that threaten to shatter that illusion all around us - that is the source of these kind of outbursts. Not "he was autistic" "he was schizophrenic" "she was a survivalist" - none of those things CAUSED this to happen.

Our shitty culture caused this to happen. Our pretense that death is an enemy that must be fought and defeated, rather than part of life. Our desire to be entertained by anxieties - anything else is deemed "boring." Our childlike black and white view of the world that puts us in the centre and the rest of the world nonexistent. That every problem only has two possible and diametrically opposite solutions. That reality is personal, mutable, and seeks to be "fair."

Until we are willing to address the lies we live in - we're just going to keep having people who explode and try to take as many other people with them as we can.

WE are the problem. Not guns. Not mental illness.

Cultural illness is the problem - and there are no pills or quick fixes for that."