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Kinda how it works in our late stage capitalist societies to be honest, except that it's collective pressure/belief instead of state-imposed.
You have trouble accepting the shitty state the world is in? You don't want to be exploited and end the month with not enough to pay your rent? You're fed up with that human crushing machine that keeps on destroying the planet because There Is No Alternative?
Well, you should consult you might be a tiny bit depressed. Take antidepressants and shut the fuck up. Learn to see and focus on the beauty in life and the little things instead. Take small hobbies, a lover or a cat. How you deal with all of that is your own individual problem.
Does it seem so normal that you really can't see any other way? Congratulations, you are well programmed. Those problems aren't to be delt with on an individual level, they are political.
In the past, most people formed unions and parties and did strikes, political rallys, protested and burned the landowners' manors as a way to process those kind of feelings.
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France - April to August 1906 - Fressenneville - The locksmiths' strike: The town square and the castle burned down (Begun in April 1906, this movement lasted 5 months. The workers at the Riquier locksmiths' factory wanted employers' organizations to respect union rights. The strike reached a rare level of violence in the face of the employers' intransigence and repression. The burning of Édouard Riquier's castle was a prime example.)
Stoicism has become commoditized as a way to convince people that their lot in life is just their attitude, and the more they put their shoulder to the wheel to produce for the top of the pyramid, the more it works out for them, rather than questioning the wheel. The hustle and grind culture is just as much the goal of something like the heritage foundation as "deport the brown people."
Which is weird because stoicism evolved out of cynicism and inherited it's philosophical hatred of authority at least historically.
As someone who works as a therapist in the mental health system in America, this is not at all how it works.
It's not what you are doing. It is how it has evolved though.
Apart from fringe activist groups, who thinks of politics as something they have to make happen on a daily basis?
The political way to process through the various clashing forces that make our societies has almost totally given way to the individualized injunction of dealing with the consequences. It's in the zeitgeist, all the injunction to self-care, self-improvement and so on. If you are centered on yourself, you won't priorize the collective.
And saying that doesn't negate the usefulness of psychology and therapy work at the individual level. Nor does it imply a big conspiracy or something of the sort.
Lots of people actually. The comparison you're making between many people being generally uninterested in politics vs mental illness being criminalized by the state is, frankly, ridiculous.