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It's the logic of Late Capitalism: all problems and failings are those of the individual, never of the system.
by s_kilk 9y ago
It's the logic of Late Capitalism: all problems and failings are those of the individual, never of the system.
- quadrangle 9y agoWhile that may indeed be the propaganda, blaming addicts for their addictions can be victim-blaming. Some of the rhetoric blames the video game companies more than the consumers…
- posterboy 9y agono, not if the addict's diction is directed ad everyone else's faults but his own. Of course I am bending the definition https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/addico#Latin https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/addico#Latin
- kbutler 9y agoThere's a pendulum swing - focusing on the problems of the system, and focusing on the problems of the individual. In truth, there are problems both in the system and with individuals, and failings in each reinforce the other, and effective aspects of each also reinforce each other.