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The incongruity comes from the collective ideological demands of Capitalist societies (that they are sustainable, don’t lead to ecological collapse, endless war
by claudeganon 7y ago
The incongruity comes from the collective ideological demands of Capitalist societies (that they are sustainable, don’t lead to ecological collapse, endless war, devolve into fascism in their periodic crises, etc) and the lived experience that, yes, they do actually do all of the things their ideology denies.
As a kind of society-wide psychological complex, Capitalism can’t function without massive amounts of this denial and projection. But the threadbare nature of those defenses is everyday more exposed, and inwardly directed, especially following the collapse of the USSR (which existed in a similar, but differently conjugated state).
- Ididntdothis 7y agoMental illness has nothing to do with political systems. It exists in all systems.
- claudiawerner 7y agoExisting in all systems is not the same as it having nothing to do with political systems - especially political systems that occupy all of daily life, as they do. There is no aspect of urban daily life that is free from the compulsion to use one's time to make money, either to survive or accumulate, and nobody - neither the capitalist nor the worker - is free from that concern.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoWhat political system would avoid mental illness?
- claudeganon 7y agoYou’re continuing to elide both my and the parent’s point not that any political systems are free of mental illness, but that they result in different rates, experiences, and forms of instantiation. This isn’t even contested in the psychological literature. For example, go read about how schizophrenia manifests and is experienced in the developing vs. developed world. Or how depression and rates of suicide increase in the wake of economic crises.
- Covzire 7y agoMonarchy with a perfectly just King and Court (only half serious).
- Ididntdothis 7y agoI am sure even there people would find ways to be unhappy. Same for perfect communism. A lot of people would be happy but then you also would have people who think hey are better and would try to get ahead of others.