Daily Inspiration Quote by Brad Holland

Holland’s line isn’t trying to win a seminar-room argument about epistemology; it’s trying to shame one. He takes a messy set of late-20th-century intellectual habits and reduces them to a single, flippable equation: truth/myth, myth/truth. The symmetry is the point. By framing postmodern thought as a neat swap rather than a serious critique of power, language, and knowledge, he suggests it’s less a philosophy than a parlor trick.

The “roots in pop psychology” jab is doing cultural policing. Pop psychology here stands in for therapeutic individualism: the idea that your internal weather deserves public authority. When Holland says “emotions are a form of reality,” he’s not denying feelings; he’s mocking the move where feelings become evidence and offense becomes proof. In an era of branding, self-curation, and media that rewards personal testimony, he’s arguing that the subjective has been promoted from experience to verdict.

Then comes the knife: “There used to be another name… psychosis.” It’s a deliberately inflammatory medical metaphor, meant to collapse a political and aesthetic debate into pathology. As an illustrator, Holland is fluent in caricature; this is that skill translated into prose. The intent is not diagnostic accuracy but delegitimization: if your worldview is “psychosis,” you don’t engage it, you contain it.

Context matters: this reads like backlash literature from the culture-war decades when “postmodernism” became a catchall for relativism, academia, and changing norms around identity and speech. Holland is tapping a real fatigue with bad-faith relativism, but he also signals an anxiety about losing the old gatekeepers of reality-making.