151 - A ground of shame

Gordon Wheeler writes about the individualist paradigm that we have been
taught to believe in was created 3000 years ago in what is now Greece. Central to
this paradigm is the belief that we are separate beings and we should be able
to handle things ourselves and if we can't, it means there is something wrong
with us. The truth is we need each other in many ways and this becomes a
widespread source of shame for us by our having a sense of failure for not
living up to these unrealistic expectations. In the individualist paradigm to
need help is to feel ashamed.
Ken