Aging & Wisdom Quote by Robert Johnson

Anxiety about the future is doing two jobs here: warning us that our old stories have expired, and daring us to build replacements sturdy enough to live in. Robert Johnson, writing as a psychologist steeped in Jungian thinking, frames the coming era as a psychological weather change. “Age we’re entering” suggests a collective shift, not just personal stress - the kind of historical moment where inherited beliefs stop organizing experience and start feeling like dead language.

“High consciousness” lands as both prescription and burden. Johnson isn’t selling self-help glow; he’s insisting on a costly attentiveness: the capacity to notice contradiction, shadow motives, and the ways mass culture scripts our desires. “That comes hard” is the anti-influencer clause. Growth isn’t a vibe; it’s friction, discipline, and the willingness to be unsettled.

The sharpest move is the line about myth. He’s not romanticizing ancient gods; he’s diagnosing a meaning deficit. In Jungian terms, myth is the software that lets a society metabolize fear, grief, technology, power. “Modern” matters: the old mythic containers (religion, nationalism, progress) no longer hold, yet the psyche still demands narrative scaffolding. Without it, people don’t become purely rational; they become suggestible - ripe for conspiracy, cults, and political fantasies that function as counterfeit myths.

The intent, then, is preventative. Johnson is arguing that survival in a destabilizing century depends less on better gadgets or louder certainty than on inner literacy - and on a shared story that can handle complexity without turning it into scapegoats.