Mental disease of late stage capitalism(medium.com) |
Mental disease of late stage capitalism(medium.com) |
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...