Reid P. Claxton, Ph.D.

Why does America feel so reactive, exhausted, and divided? Why do institutions seem incapable of reform? Why does the culture feel increasingly unreal? The American Mirror argues that the root cause is national blindness-the loss of America's ability to see itself clearly. Reid P. Claxton, Ph. D., traces the five-part arc of this collapse: the blinding of the interior world, the compensations that fill the vacuum, the systems that sustain the blindness, the new gods that rise in the absence of sight, and the reckoning that determines the nation's future.
With diagnostic clarity and narrative force, he shows how Americans drifted into overstimulation, emotional outsourcing, symbolic inflation, and identity fragmentation-and what must be rebuilt for clarity and control to return.