We live in the Age of Anxiety. And anxiety is maintained moment by moment, person by person, by personal tension. Anxiety is socially maintained by physical and so mental personal tension.
Naturally we seek relief from our anxiety, from our tension, in many different forms. A common form is smoking, and our form here is mbti.
In smoking, for instance, we experience tension through withdrawal and we ameliorate this tension by lighting up. But after a short while we again experience the tension of withdrawal and so we light up again, and so on, over and over again, until we enter the repetitive trance loop of withdrawal and lighting up. And alas, trance loops, or double trances as they are called, are addictive.
And this is why mbti is so addictive. It is a trance loop or a double trance. The first trance is the anxiety and tension we feel from school, from work, from home, and the second trance is the relief we feel from mbti. And then we feel the anxiety, then we feel the relief, over and over again, until we have formed a trance loop, and we are addicted.
But not understanding we are caught in a trance loop, we mistakenly defend the trance loop as something good in itself, when in fact it is addictive and psychologically damaging.
But this begs the simple question: why do we live in the Age of Anxiety?
