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It is 2020. I log into Chapo.chat. I see a post that gives me psychological damage. I log out.

It is 2024. I log into Hexbear. I see a post that gives me psychological damage. I log out.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

living any given day under this capitalist nightmare inflicts more psychological damage

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?

— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

(I have not read this yet but it is on list)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

You should get on it. It's a short read and it's easu to find a free PDF online

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Already have it in my library. Its like 70 pages isn't it? Should be easy.

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