You Don't Need to "Gaslight Yourself"
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 1 minutes
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As the intentional handiwork of a Creator, we have a foundation to discover the meaning our culture has lost.
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| 0:00.0 | With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:05.0 | To get through tough times, a since-edited WikiHou article now recommends for you to gaslight yourself, |
| 0:10.0 | or tell yourself the struggle is making you stronger and the universe is just testing you. |
| 0:14.0 | The article has been mostly shared as a joke, but it does point to an irony and modern thought. |
| 0:19.0 | We're in a culture-wide crisis of meaning. |
| 0:21.1 | One in three teenagers, for example, |
| 0:22.9 | say they feel persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. |
| 0:26.2 | That's an increase of 40% since 2009. |
| 0:28.9 | And our dominant philosophies tell us |
| 0:30.5 | that each person's responsible for creating |
| 0:32.5 | his or her own meaning out of an otherwise meaningless life. |
| 0:36.3 | In essence, philosophy classes around the world |
| 0:38.3 | are taking a page out of WikiHouse playbook and it's not working. We're more than just a series |
| 0:42.8 | of self-edits. As the intentional handiwork of our creator, we have a foundation to discover the |
| 0:48.6 | meaning that our culture has widely lost. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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