“This makes me question myself” is almost synonymous with “This insults me.”

 “This makes me question myself”: this expression should be regarded carefully, for it rarely carries a positive meaning. It is almost synonymous with saying, “This insults me.” People’s identities have, for the most part, developed in ways that exclude self-questioning. One finds oneself facing a humanity that endlessly throws around mottos like “reason” and “thought,” yet exhibits not the slightest trace of either. To question would shatter their sense of self, for their selves are superficial. As they descend deeper, they sense themselves—the surface, that is—breaking apart, and therefore they never dare to try. Since there is no real quality on the surface, there is an excess of spectacle and noise; and this abundance turns self-affirming falseness into a kind of culture, thereby trapping the unreflective person even more tightly within that echo-chamber cycle.