The Mindfulness Conspiracy
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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Void of a moral compass or ethical commitments, unmoored from a vision of the social good, the commodification of mindfulness keeps it anchored in the ethos of the market.
Ronald E. Purser • McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Unless it is combined with more liberating teachings, mindfulness just makes oppressive systems work more gently.
Ronald E. Purser • McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
“Buddhist teachers Ronald Purser and Andrew Cage are even more forthright: The rapid mainstreaming of mindfulness has provided a domesticated and tame set of meditation techniques for mainly upper-middle-class and corporate elites so they may become more self accepting of their anxieties, helping them to 'thrive;' to have it all - money, power and... See more