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> It's capitalism We had capitalism for a LONG time before we had the international teen mental illness epidemic.
by commandlinefan 3y ago
> It's capitalism
We had capitalism for a LONG time before we had the international teen mental illness epidemic.
- spunker540 3y agoAnd this teen epidemic would be the first complaint I’ve heard lodged against capitalism. Can’t be that.
- jampekka 3y agoNot this level of capitalism. The post-war consensus economy of the west had heavy state intervention and economic involvement. Things started to change towards "free market" neoliberalism (AKA voodoo economics) in around the 1970's, and the rate of the change exploded after the fall of Soviet Union.
- Barrin92 3y agoYes but we didnt' have the entire thing uploaded into our heads. To use Byung-Chul Han's phrase, you're both master and slave in one now. You're not even a subject any more (that has some places to escape to) but a project. To tie it into the article, the social media dynamic, young girls seeing themselves as never-ending beauty projects that have to get lip-fillers, more clicks, more likes, compete with each other, is just the logic of capital without even someone needing to subject them to it, they're doing it themselves. Capital's eaten all the physical space, it's still hungry so it's gobling up all the mental space, and information tech was the vector to jump from one to the other. And it does to the mental environment exactly what it did to physical spaces once its done harvesting them.