As a therapist myself, more complementary than new age, it's fascinating as to how the frothy end of alternative thinking which when I was training as considered ideologically low brow, non scientific, frankly overly emotional, and not incorporated by the structures that governed us and ran our institutions, has been adopted or co-opted wholesale by frankly faulty thinking elites.
The push to bring your best life to work? Back in the non brain dead time, it was are you qualified, can you fit in?
The very idea, concept, that not only can one change sex, but that others must agree, and no dissent can be broached? Not so much you'd be struck off for malpractice, but you wouldn't ever have qualified to begin with as a doctor or biologist, any kind of scientist, social scientist etc.
And championing the end of free speech, you'd have no future in the arts, politics, journalism, writing etc.
Sure there was a real trudge for women, gays, the disabled etc to get and entrench their rights, but the rigour of thinking in public life meant that these groups had to argue hard, and convince, and win out.
Today? Watching the wacky end of the New Age and subjective 101 different "truths" win out at the highest levels of science, medicine, academia, the arts, politics, journalism etc, in its wake dumbing down the discourse on everything, feels like a jump the shark moment for the liberal Enlightenment West.
On the one side, the reaction to Trump and his artistic destruction of norms, on the other, the whole of elite society ostensibly opposed to everything Trump and his worldview stands for, also trashing norms.
Left and right are fucked.
All of us are in the middle, in the middle ground that the right and left poles having vaporised, is leaving as a vacuum.