How Ironic

"How ironic: from the vantage point of a society sick unto death, we puzzle over what it was in an individual that caused him to become insane. As members of a society suicidally ravishing the environment and arming ourselves to oblivion, we are perplexed at the high rates of suicide."
--Wink, Walter. Unmasking the Powers. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986. 50-51.

Wink then continues to point out that too often in the late twentieth century our therapeutic goal for troubled individuals was to help adjust them to a morbid world. We have increasingly understood what we project outward but remain nearly totally blind to what the world projects onto us. --Wink, 51.

Maybe it isn't the sickness of the individual but the sickness of the society that needs a cure.