Your Therapist Needs Therapy 139 - Deconstructing Civic Faith

About this episode

Jeremy discusses the deconstruction of civic pride and its parallels with religious deconstruction.

This week Jeremy takes a look at people deconstructing their civic pride and offers the framework of religious deconstruction as a useful model for navigating the fallout. We look at the “American Dream,” “Manifest Destiny” and even “We’re #1” as mythology that has been shown false and what happens to identity when people begin to pull on the thread of American exceptionalism. We talk about identity, community, and critical thinking as important tools in building a healthier, more realistic w...

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Schumacher

Topics covered

• civic pride
• religious deconstruction
• American exceptionalism
• identity
• community
• critical thinking

Keywords

• civic faith
• American Dream
• Manifest Destiny
• identity
• critical thinking
• American exceptionalism

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: American Dream, Manifest Destiny, We’re #1

Places: America

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