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Very very good. His writing is incisive, and he points us all to ground our selves, our worth, and our life narratives in reality beyond our inner selves.

Gripping! Beck’s central thesis is that “turning inside ourselves” (I the self determine, create, and sustain my own meaning against a flood of others trying to do the same and outcompete me) is a major driver of modernity’s social ills and evils, whereas turning “outside ourselves toward transcendence” gifts us with security, value, and meaning that is stable, even when we are not.