No One Is Kenough
From a psychological perspective it makes more sense to attribute the current sense of entitlement and the rise of individualism to a society that teaches people to pursue their own advantage, irrespective of and, if needs be, at the expense of, the other. ‘You only live once.’
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
“Hyper-individualism turns feelings of low self-esteem and difficulty finding romance into a personal responsibility: if it’s a personal responsibility for you to learn to love yourself, then society is now off the hook,” they say. The solution, of course, is not to strive toward true codependency but interdependency, something disability justice a... See more
i-D • Unpacking our generational fear of codependency
