/lit/ - Literature

>The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRls). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.

Does killing you are self negate every thing you said, unless you specifically argued for suicide per se, since if you were for suicide, what was all that other yapping about?

Marxism is obsolete

>damn.. there is no feasible alternative to capitalism after all
>its easier to imagine an end of the world than an end of capitalism.. damn
Wow, what a truly groundbreaking discovery, marxists! What's next on the menu? That water is wet?

Daily reminder that there is no viable alternative to capitalism, and all the lefty polemicists in the world cannot refute that fact

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Various forms of realism that have congested/stifled thought and imagination.

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not OP, but is this worth a read?

this thread(4chan, twitter and rise of sad music and mainstreaming of nihilistic/pessimistic ideas/culture in general) is a proof that mark fisher's diagnosis in capitalist realism was right.

https://youtu.be/AhOcwhwumP4

What the fuck

He's just making a bunch of unverified claims without any citations

He's just... guessing a bunch of shit

What on earth is the appeal of this

its over

Holy shit

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