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Is Capitalism Making Us Sick?
it’s not just individuals making individual choices that make them ill. Socially and politically, we’re promoting policies, regulations and lifestyles that are making people ill to such a degree that stress, trauma and anxiety are being woven through and through the social fabric.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The real illness from which we suffer is Disconnection (one of the 'Deadly Sins' we will explore later), and the vehicle driving that disconnection further and further is our belief in (and the confusion between) our severely distorted and outdated ideas of capitalism and democracy that in turn perpetuate our unconscious addiction to consumerism.
Lynn Serafinn • The 7 Graces of Marketing: how to heal humanity and the planet by changing the way we sell
The current economic system is bringing out the worst in us.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
The ‘mental health plague’ in capitalist societies would suggest that, instead of being the only social system that works, capitalism is inherently dysfunctional, and that the cost of it appearing to work is very high.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
The enshittification of dating apps
That ‘individual responsibility’ idea is present in so many messages from awareness campaigns: the idea that it is our duty to reach out to loved ones and services for help; the suggestion that mental health support should come in the form of a ‘service’ at all; the emphasis on individual tools like therapy, meds, self-help, mindfulness and apps to
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