>>6473470The skyrocketing rates of mental illness and suicide in the Western world are clearly a social and political problem, not an individual problem. As long as we continue to ignore the fact that the way we live is directly responsible for the tremendous suffering experienced by Westerners everyday, trends will continue--mass shootings, overdoses, divorced men hanging themselves in their apartment at 48.
Late liberalism fosters alienation, materialism, and apathy. We live in a world that tells we SHALL live on bread alone, that because we are well-fed we have no cause for complaint, and thus we have never been more deracinated, disordered, and corrupt. The system essentially runs on debt slavery and consumerism. The ideal citizen is a fully domesticated wageslave who gives his life to a tech company before topping himself after thirty years of paying back his debts, just before he can collect a pension
>>6473495This exact mentality is a major facet in our misery.
> "in the entrepreneurial fantasy society," we are taught "that only the affluent are winners and that access to the top is open to anyone willing to work hard enough, regardless of their familial, ethnic or social background – if you do not succeed, there is only one person to blame."Late liberalism celebrates hyper-competition because hyper-competition benefits the system tremendously, while punishing the vast majority of unwilling participants. "You alone are responsible" ignores the uncomfortable reality that most people really have very little control over who they are, what their personality is like, what their wants are, and what arbitrary historical and social trends they are subject to.
