IJSP Number 3, 2021

48 and predictable. Such psychologies lead to a self-justifying way of living considered, in the meantime, as being perfectly normal. Concurrently, as an equally default of the statistics of large numbers, there occurs the marginalization of the few exceptions to the rule (exceptions that merely confirm it). All those who do not subscribe to the omnipresent consumerism philosophy of life could be branded (due of this) as freaks or some social anomalies, a sort of living fossils, stubborn enough to survive in their revolute epoch. Introvert or extroverts – inward or outward perspectives – are just two extremes of psychological types common among humans. There is not a good or a bad type, there is not a better or a worse psychological profile. Theoretically, both life positions can be easily justified only on the base of adoption of some proper perspective. From a practical point of view, they are both viable and functional, especially in terms of adopting a pragmatic philosophy. However, as we can observe, the social life and media, the perspectives offered by sociological, political, economic, and financial tendencies that confirm the general trend of consumerism, emphasize the extrovert orientation only. The approach we attempt to convey is justified solely from a general anthropological perspective interested in authentic deep and defining human values that touch as much the human ‘substance’ as some possible ways of human development too. Our everyday planetary citizen has no more time left for other things but shopping, consuming, or enjoying herself/himself. Even work as such, has become part of a more encompassing grasp that absorbs individuals and the masses into a vast network where everyone has her/his predestined place and role to fulfil. Where could we have, in such a context, some place or time for self-development or introspection, so necessary, if not vital, to any supervisor and every psychotherapist? However, nowadays nobody has time anymore. Why is that so? Probably because time has become a very special commodity, one that is becoming day by day more precious and valuable. Unfortunately, time is one of the few remaining commodities one cannot purchase at the supermarket. And that, although we can buy almost everything in our supermarkets, besides food and the basic necessities – we diligently buy even drinking water although every tap in town, city or suburbia must have potable water. Moreover, we find ourselves conditioned to buy, or at least to pay for our air conditioning and as such, we find ourselves conditioned to consume conditioned air. Not only the air we inhale but also the sun – with all its power and ultraviolet rays – is there for sale in every sun-studio. With all these omnipresent and all invasive conditionings, we still have not answered the question: where is the psychotherapist or, for that matter, her/his supervisor situated? What niche or place do they occupy in the vast and all- engulfing capitalist-consumerist system? Is there anybody left outside from its all- encompassing march towards total invasion of our lives, thoughts, and feelings? Who has remained with an alternative or with the possibility of escaping the ‘www’ of the Matrix? Who could dare to think otherwise, to feel that something is