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Post by Admin on Jun 10, 2019 10:10:35 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2019 17:04:14 GMT
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Post by Admin on Aug 17, 2019 12:42:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Sept 16, 2019 9:44:58 GMT
"Our society may itself have become biologically dysfunctional, and some forms of schizophrenic alienation from the alienation of society may have a sociobiological function that we have not recognized."
R.D. Laing The Politics of Experience
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2019 13:08:48 GMT
A Mad World An ever growing number of people are being treated for mental illness. Some blame the modern world, yet critics warn that psychiatrists and big pharma have an interest in describing normal human behaviour as disordered. Should we be sceptical of claims that 25% of the population suffer from mental illness each year? Should we give up the notion that mental distress implies illness, and seek other ways to understand these states of mind? iai.tv/video/a-mad-world
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Post by Admin on Nov 4, 2019 11:08:27 GMT
Don’t Be Scared About The End Of Capitalism—Be Excited To Build What Comes Next Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries. "Capitalism has become a dogma, and dogmas die very slowly and very reluctantly. It is a system that has co-evolved with modernity, so it has the full force of social and institutional norms behind it. Its essential logic is even woven into most of our worldviews, which is to say, our brains. To question it can trigger a visceral reaction; it can feel like an attack not just on common sense but on our personal identities. But even if you believe it was once the best system ever, you can still see that today it has become necrotic and dangerous. This is demonstrated most starkly by two facts: The first is that the system is doing little now to improve the lives of the majority of humans: by some estimates, 4.3 billion of us are living in poverty, and that number has risen significantly over the past few decades. The ghostly responses to this tend to be either unimaginative–“If you think it’s bad, try living in Zimbabwe”–or zealous: “Well, that’s because there’s not enough capitalism. Let it loose with more deregulation, or give it time and it will raise their incomes too.” One of the many problems with this last argument is the second fact: with just half of us living above the poverty line, capitalism’s endless need for resources is already driving us over the cliff-edge of climate change and ecological collapse. This ranges from those that are both finite and dangerous to use, like fossil fuels, to those that are being used so fast that they don’t have time to regenerate, like fish stocks and the soil in which we grow our food. Those 4.3 billion more people living ‘successful’ hyper-consumption lifestyles? The laws of physics would need to change. Even Elon Musk can’t do that. It would be a sad and defeated world that simply accepted the prebaked assumption that capitalism (or socialism, or communism) represents the last stage of human thought; our ingenuity exhausted. Capitalism’s fundamental rules–like the necessity for endless GDP growth, which requires treating our planet as an infinite pit of value and damage to it as an “externality”– can be upgraded. Of course they can. There are plenty of options on the table. Of course, transcending capitalism might feel impossible right now. The political mainstream has its feet firmly planted and deeply rooted in that soil. But with the pace of events today, the unimaginable can become the possible, and even the inevitable with remarkable speed. The path to a better future will be cut by regular people being curious and open enough to challenge the wisdom received from our schools, our parents, and our governments, and look at the world with fresh eyes www.fastcompany.com/40454254/dont-be-scared-about-the-end-of-capitalism-be-excited-to-build-what-comes-next
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Post by Admin on Nov 16, 2019 4:27:49 GMT
We are caged by our cultural programming.
Culture is a mass hallucination,
and when you step outside the mass hallucination
you see it for what it's worth.
~ Terence McKenna
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Post by Admin on Dec 6, 2019 20:46:31 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 11, 2019 13:21:01 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2020 13:35:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2020 9:48:57 GMT
"I believe, inherently, that the structures of society are driving us mad. Though most of us believe ourselves to be fairly well-adjusted, healthy individuals, we are all patients in the asylum together now. Besides anthropologists, most of us don’t have the kind of broad cultural perspective necessary to see our society objectively. If a hunter-gatherer saw how we behave towards each other (at work, at school, in politics, with strangers), he’d think we’d all gone nuts. We lack the perspective to even question the sanity of things like banks, schools, bosses, employees, capitalist economics, and needing money in our society simply so we won’t starve." www.filmsforaction.org/articles/why-do-so-many-people-do-drugs-instead-of-solving-for-root-causes/
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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2020 16:22:16 GMT
The Untold Truth about Our Social and Ecological Collapse, with Helena Norberg-Hodge"Many talk about climate change, but rare are those who dare to speak about its systemic, deeply-ingrained root cause. Depression, unemployment, racism and climate change indeed seem to be interconnected through the invisible web of the power of multinational corporations. In this interview, Helena-Norberg-Hodge explains the history behind it all. She describes with great precision the economical culture that has been destroying our planet and communities for decades, and today threatens our very own survival. Not only that, but she offers an alternative supported by decades of evidence and ground studies, a path which she now calls localization (or decentralization). Helena-Norberg Hodge was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1986 and the Goi Peace Prize in 2012. In "Wisdom for a liveable planet", she was profiled as one of the eight visionaries changing the world, and The Earth Journal counted her among the world's ten most interesting environmentalists." www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-untold-truth-about-our-social-and-ecological-collapse-with-helena-norberghodge/
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2020 19:23:12 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 5, 2020 18:54:27 GMT
Almost Everyone Meets Criteria for ‘Mental Illness’A study following over one thousand people across 45 years finds that nearly nine out of ten people meet the criteria for a mental illness at some point in their lives. A new study finds that 86% of people will have met criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis by the time they’re 45 years old, and 85% of those will have met criteria for at least two diagnoses. Exactly half (50%) of the population will have met the criteria for a “disorder” by age 18. According to the researchers, almost nine out of ten people will meet the criteria for “mental illness” at some point in their life. This shockingly high rate of “mental illness” is not the focal point of the study. Instead, the researchers write that “these findings suggest that mental disorder life histories shift among different successive disorders.” That is, the implication of their study, according to the researchers, is that people with “mental illness” may have multiple different diagnoses. The research was led by Avshalom Caspi at Duke University and published in JAMA Network Open. www.madinamerica.com/2020/05/almost-everyone-meets-criteria-mental-illness/Original Investigation Psychiatry April 21, 2020 Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Comorbidities Across 4 Decades Among Participants in the Dunedin Birth Cohort Study jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2764602
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2020 17:34:27 GMT
The Ship of Fools and our society Ekaterina bipolar disorder, Christianity, English, madness, psychiatry, psychosis, Schizophrenia, Uncategorized russianpatient.com/2020/03/12/the-ship-of-fools-and-our-society/(Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch) The painting as such was based on what was happening to the people proclaimed as ‘mad’ at that time. ‘Madness’ as such incorporated the same elements as today, such as calling all people exhibiting weird behavior or showing weird thought pattern, as ‘not normal’. These people were put on the ship and sent in the middle of nowhere, but still attracting large crowds of people in order to see them off or when they would embark in another town on their journey. The human curious mind always liked the spectacle because it simply shows us the possibilities of a quest of the human soul: some people simply go beyond the gates of ‘normality’.
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