SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
“Crises teasingly hold out the possibility of dramatic reversals only to be followed by surreal continuity as the old order cadaverously fights back.”
“There’s simply no alternative to this system” I gasp, coughing my lungs out, after waiting 20 hours for a hospital bed. “But at what cost?” I splutter, as I see a city in China exiting lockdown with less than a thousand infections while putting on my work outfit 5 days after testing positive.
If you mean how they mentally reconcile, then there’s not really any need for them to do so as Americans and westerners generally don’t have consistent ideologies. Not that that’s automatically a bad thing, you can have a consistently evil ideology, but it means that the problems (and solutions) don’t weave into a wider narrative or critique of a system. It’s just whack-a-mole without seeing the underground mole tunnels.
Maybe try and have good - hell, let’s just settle on functioning - public transport and maybe people wouldn’t simp over other countries doing it better than yours?
many such cases!
This is basically it, and I feel like the left’s overreaction to therapy (and sometimes to medication) is sometimes more about frustration with how these things are increasingly treated as things that are super important and will heal your life and mind, rather than a fully reasoned argument put forward. If these things help you, do them, no question. But it’s important to realize that the problems in your life aren’t directly your fault (the vast majority of the time) and are the result of a system, and individualistic healing methods like therapy will not and can not solve those problems, they can only mitigate it. Medication is different as it can be much more inexpensively distributed to large swaths of people, and should when it’s required, obviously. But the mental impact of capitalism exacerbates these conditions.
That point wasn’t a direct criticism of therapy. My intended point was that therapy is prescribed by others, often those who don’t have a real background in mental health, in order to “heal” you after a problem. Whether this works is beside the point (though I strongly believe it does work). The systems that create that problem are still in place, sometimes even advocated by the same people who say that you should meditate and go to therapy. The left’s caginess (and unfortunately sometimes opposition) to therapy isn’t how it itself functions, but how it’s used as a bandaid, as the person I replied to described.
It’s more about talking about how liberals talk about therapy, rather than actually talking about therapy.
I’m sure this will work forever, the hospitals will be able to cope with this, herd immunity by mass infection will be a viable strategy because immunity isn’t weakened by new variants, and those new variants will be even less severe than Omicron, like how Delta was with the original stra-- wait. shit.
