Jack Mullen Tikkun Olam is the Jewish way of saying “the world needs fixing, and it’s our job to fix it.” denial Psychiatry A primitive–ego defense–mechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a disease or other stress-producing reality in his environment, by disavowing thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable. The current state of Western Civilization can be characterized in terms of long term mental illness; a mass psychosis with institutionalized support. America, for example, has become a nation of traumatized children, having…