Envious and Deceived

Society’s self-deception has propelled us into an ecological crisis fueled by overpopulation and unchecked ambition. It reveals how envy and rejection of classical education and psychoanalysis allowed us to ignore looming realities, leading to a dangerous imbalance between growth and sustainability. We’re trapped in a dying habitat—all 8.2 billion of us. Why did we do this to ourselves? Envious and Deceived: How Classical Education and Psychoanalysis Could Have Saved Us is a study of society’s suicide. It shows how humanity’s envy and self-deception let it destroy our habitat by overpopulation. Classical Education and Psychoanalysis were meant to curtail self-deception. But we rejected both institutions because they imposed tensions, stresses, or anxieties intolerable to a critical mass of society. Without those mentors, the culture could indulge its denial of deadly realities. The deadliest reality, the most anthrocidal, was overshoot – humanity’s explosion into a behemoth bio-economic system far too large for the earth to sustain.