Cultural pathogens

Psychiatrist Boris Vatel (Chronicles Dec 2017) writes that a psychiatric disorder can be present when a persons internal experience is at odds with the shared observations and experiences that we define as reality. I would expand that concept and suggest that a pathogen can be more than a bacterium causing disease. I think cultural Marxism, postmodernism, and radical feminism could be considered cultural pathogens at odds with the shared observations and experiences we define as reality.

Reality says that human nature is kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection. People and cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against this basic human nature, with such experiments as Marxism, postmodernism, and radical feminism, but the culture is eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect real human nature, and humans then adapt to the environments they find themselves living in.

We thought the Soviet Union was evil for defining people who refused to follow communist orders (refuseniks) as insane. Western culture, including Western psychiatry, has instead gone the opposite direction, toward the dark side, and declared even such things as transgenderism as sane, saying any problems of distress they may have is caused by discrimination against them!