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Is Capitalism Making Us Sick?
We live in an extremely individualistic culture, where we are constantly pushed to see our problems as individual failings, and to seek out individual solutions.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
‘Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual solutions … A preoccupation with individual symptoms may lead to a “disembodied psychology” which separates what goes on inside people’s heads from social structure and context. The key t
... See morePaul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
under capitalism, we all do live on a spectrum of captivity, with access to social and physical and intellectual stimuli unequally distributed. And thus we live on a spectrum of forced introspection, in which we ruminate on our own lives excessively because we do not have adequate access to external stimuli.
P.E. Moskowitz • A Culture of Introspective Captivity
We have such pervasive extreme inequality it threatens the safety of everyone (even the wealthiest), while the story says that our primary responsibility is to compete against everyone else to hoard more. We have ecological breakdown, while the story insists that our identity and status rely upon further consumption. We have an epidemic of loneline
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