The modern self finds itself in the midst of what Robert Bellah has described as a culture of "expressive individualism"- where each of us seeks to give expression to our individual inner lives rather than seeing ourselves as embedded in communities and bound by natural and supernatural laws.?
Authenticity to inner feelings rather than adherence to transcendent truths, becomes the norm. This modern self, then, gives rise to a " fleshscape "or inner sanctum society that is not accountable to anyone outside of oneself, but to the therapists who counsel how to be true to oneself.
(Agreed in part)
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