> The pain we feel is capitalism dying. It hurts us because we are still in it.
I mean, not really? I genuinely can't see where this author thinks capitalism is dying.
Mark Fisher diagnosed a link between capitalism and mental illness too, but his link is that we can't imagine a world without capitalism - that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine an end to capitalism. The cultural and structural mechanisms of capitalism dominate any individualistic approach to escaping its clutches.
> The pain we feel is capitalism dying. It hurts us because we are still in it.
I mean, not really? I genuinely can't see where this author thinks capitalism is dying.
Mark Fisher diagnosed a link between capitalism and mental illness too, but his link is that we can't imagine a world without capitalism - that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine an end to capitalism. The cultural and structural mechanisms of capitalism dominate any individualistic approach to escaping its clutches.
Fisher's a much better read: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/16/mental...