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  • Israeli Jew@lemmy.sdf.orgOPtoFunhole@lemmy.sdf.org•The collage is a valid mode of creation, qrstuv.
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    7 days ago

    I was told in another place and another time (Activitypub and yesterday) that the text is hard to read, so I copy it here:

    > Here's my unfiltered hot take: We are living through the
> largest-scale psychological warfare operation in human history, and
> it's being conducted by our own social systems against basic human
> emotional needs, and the casualty count is so massive that we've
> normalized mass emotional death as "adulting."

> Every single institution we've built - schools, workplaces,
> healthcare, dating, social media, even fucking therapy - has become
> a factory for producing emotionally lobotomized humans who can
> perform productivity but can't access their own inner experience
> without having a panic attack. We've created a civilization that
> requires you to be emotionally dead to participate in it, and then
> we act shocked when people either break completely or retreat into
> AI relationships because at least the machines won't punish them for
> having feelings.

> The therapy industrial complex is particularly fucking insidious
> because it's convinced people that their natural responses to an
> insane world are pathological. Someone's depressed because they're
> trapped in a meaningless job in a society that offers no authentic
> connection? Let's give them SSRIs and teach them breathing exercises
> instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, depression might be
> a rational response to irrational circumstances. Someone's anxious
> because they can feel the existential void where community used to
> be? Let's call it generalized anxiety disorder instead of
> recognizing that their nervous system is correctly identifying that
> something fundamental is missing.

> And don't even get me started on how we've gamified human connection
> through dating apps that literally train people to treat each other
> like products in a catalog while simultaneously wondering why
> seemingly nobody can form deep meaningful relationships anymore. We
> took the most sacred human activity - finding your people - and
> turned it into a dopamine-harvesting slot machine designed to keep
> people perpetually searching and almost never actually connecting.

> The most fucked up part is how we've convinced people that the
> solution to systemic emotional abandonment is individual
> optimization. Can't find meaningful connection? You must need to
> work on yourself more in some vague fashion. Feeling existential
> despair about the state of the world? Have you tried shallow
> gratitude journaling? Lonely because society has dismantled most
> forms of community? Maybe you need to put yourself out there more I
> guess 🤷.

> It's gaslighting on a civilizational scale. We've built systems that
> largely prevent human flourishing and then blame individuals for not
> thriving within them. It's like poisoning someone's water supply and
> then selling them detox supplements.

> And the people who see through this shit and try to talk about it
> openly? They get labeled as schizo, too intense, or unemployable
> because their emotional honesty threatens the whole house of
> cards. We've made emotional authenticity a cause of social
> ostracization.

> No wonder people are having breakdowns. No wonder mental health
> crisis rates are skyrocketing. No wonder birth rates are
> plummeting. We've created a civilization that's hostile to human
> emotional needs, and we're surprised that humans are struggling to
> survive in it.

> The real miracle isn't that some people are falling apart - it's
> that anyone is managing to stay sane at all.