اختصر الإنسان المسافات وحقق رفاهية كانت يوماً خيالاً، لكن خلف هذا البريق تتزايد مشاعر القلق، تنتشر حالات الاكتئاب، وتتوتر العلاقات، ويظهر فراغ وجودي متصاعد يصعب تجاهله. المشكلة ليست في التقدم نفسه، بل في غياب التوازن بين الإنجاز الخارجي وعمق الإنسان النفسي والروحي، فبينما تتطور الأدوات يُهمَل الإنسان بوصفه كائناً يحمل تاريخاً داخلياً معقّداً.
رأى «فرويد»، أن الحضارة تُكلف الفرد كبتاً مقابل الاستقرار. أما اليوم، فالغرائز لا تُقمع بل تُستثمر وتُشوَّه؛ تُستغل الرغبة، يُسوّق الجنس، وتُترك الدوافع بلا بوصلة، فتتولّد فوضى نفسية من نوع جديد. العدوان لم يختفِ، بل تغيّر شكله، صار إقصاءً مموّهاً وتنافساً خفياً. العنف لم يعد في الصراخ والجسد فقط، بل في اللامبالاة والتهميش الصامت، وفي علاقات يغلفها جدار خفي من التجاهل.
تتسرب هذه الفوضى إلى الإعلام، ومنصات التواصل، والعلاقات اليومية؛ رغبات بلا حدود، توجهات متضاربة، وعدوانية مموّهة تسكن التفاصيل. هذا لا يعني أننا نعيش في كارثة، بل نمر بتحوّلات دقيقة تتطلب وعياً جديداً. فالقلق اليوم لا ينشأ فقط من القمع، بل أحياناً من غياب الحدود وفقدان المعنى وسط انفتاح متسارع.
الإنسان لا يحتاج إلى تفريغ رغباته فحسب، بل إلى فهمها، وبناء علاقة ناضجة مع ذاته وظله. غير أن فهم الذات مهمّش في مؤسسات تكرّس الإنجاز على حساب الوعي، وفي بيئات العمل تقاس فيها قيمة الفرد بما يُنتجه، لا بكيفية حضوره.
الإعلام يضخ الإثارة لا الأسئلة، فيما تختزل بعض الخطابات الدينية العلاقة مع الذات بثقافة الذنب، لا بالتأمل والفهم، والأسرة تتحول أحياناً إلى وحدة رعاية بالامتثال قبل الاكتشاف. النتيجة: إنسان ناجح ظاهرياً، مشوَّش داخلياً.
حضارة لامعة تقنياً، لكنها تصطدم بأسئلة أخلاقية وروحية مؤجلة. ما نحتاجه ليس المزيد من التقدّم، بل يقظة تضع الإنسان في مركز الصورة، لا كوسيلة بل كغاية. فهم الذات ليس ترفاً، بل ضرورة حضارية.
الصحة النفسية حق، والوعي بالذات أساس لتوازن المجتمع. هذه دعوة لبناء العالم من الداخل: من الإنسان الذي يستحق أن يُفهَم لا أن يُختزَل. لسنا في أزمة أدوات، بل في أزمة رؤية: هل الإنسان مظهر أم جوهر؟ وظيفة أم معنى؟ فحين يغيب المعنى، يفقد التقدم قيمته.
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Humanity has shortened distances and achieved a luxury that was once a fantasy, but behind this sparkle, feelings of anxiety are increasing, cases of depression are spreading, relationships are becoming strained, and a rising existential void is emerging that is hard to ignore. The problem is not in progress itself, but in the absence of balance between external achievement and the depth of the human psychological and spiritual self. While tools are evolving, the human being is neglected as a creature carrying a complex internal history.
Freud saw that civilization costs the individual repression in exchange for stability. Today, however, instincts are not suppressed but rather exploited and distorted; desire is exploited, sex is marketed, and motivations are left without a compass, leading to a new kind of psychological chaos. Aggression has not disappeared; it has merely changed form, becoming veiled exclusion and hidden competition. Violence is no longer just in shouting and physicality, but in indifference and silent marginalization, and in relationships wrapped in a hidden wall of neglect.
This chaos seeps into the media, social platforms, and daily relationships; desires without limits, conflicting tendencies, and veiled aggression inhabit the details. This does not mean we are living in a disaster, but rather that we are undergoing subtle transformations that require a new awareness. Today, anxiety arises not only from repression but sometimes from the absence of boundaries and the loss of meaning amidst rapid openness.
Humans do not only need to discharge their desires but also to understand them and build a mature relationship with themselves and their shadow. However, self-understanding is marginalized in institutions that prioritize achievement at the expense of awareness, and in work environments where an individual's value is measured by what they produce, not by how they are present.
The media pumps excitement rather than questions, while some religious discourses reduce the relationship with the self to a culture of guilt, rather than contemplation and understanding, and the family sometimes turns into a unit of care based on compliance before discovery. The result: a seemingly successful individual, but internally confused.
A civilization that is technically brilliant, yet collides with postponed ethical and spiritual questions. What we need is not more progress, but an awakening that places the human being at the center of the picture, not as a means but as an end. Understanding the self is not a luxury, but a civilizational necessity.
Mental health is a right, and self-awareness is fundamental to societal balance. This is a call to build the world from within: from the human being who deserves to be understood, not reduced. We are not in a crisis of tools, but in a crisis of vision: is the human being an appearance or essence? A function or meaning? When meaning is absent, progress loses its value.
Freud saw that civilization costs the individual repression in exchange for stability. Today, however, instincts are not suppressed but rather exploited and distorted; desire is exploited, sex is marketed, and motivations are left without a compass, leading to a new kind of psychological chaos. Aggression has not disappeared; it has merely changed form, becoming veiled exclusion and hidden competition. Violence is no longer just in shouting and physicality, but in indifference and silent marginalization, and in relationships wrapped in a hidden wall of neglect.
This chaos seeps into the media, social platforms, and daily relationships; desires without limits, conflicting tendencies, and veiled aggression inhabit the details. This does not mean we are living in a disaster, but rather that we are undergoing subtle transformations that require a new awareness. Today, anxiety arises not only from repression but sometimes from the absence of boundaries and the loss of meaning amidst rapid openness.
Humans do not only need to discharge their desires but also to understand them and build a mature relationship with themselves and their shadow. However, self-understanding is marginalized in institutions that prioritize achievement at the expense of awareness, and in work environments where an individual's value is measured by what they produce, not by how they are present.
The media pumps excitement rather than questions, while some religious discourses reduce the relationship with the self to a culture of guilt, rather than contemplation and understanding, and the family sometimes turns into a unit of care based on compliance before discovery. The result: a seemingly successful individual, but internally confused.
A civilization that is technically brilliant, yet collides with postponed ethical and spiritual questions. What we need is not more progress, but an awakening that places the human being at the center of the picture, not as a means but as an end. Understanding the self is not a luxury, but a civilizational necessity.
Mental health is a right, and self-awareness is fundamental to societal balance. This is a call to build the world from within: from the human being who deserves to be understood, not reduced. We are not in a crisis of tools, but in a crisis of vision: is the human being an appearance or essence? A function or meaning? When meaning is absent, progress loses its value.


