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1. Cocoron 🍞 (cocoron@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2017 08:53:43 UTC Cocoron 🍞

   what if the rise of mental illness is the result of an economic system that actively seeks to reduce the availability of things which keep our minds in a healthy stasis, like community, fulfillment, purpose, so those things can be sold back to us like a carrot on a stick

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   • hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2017 14:20:11 UTC hypolite

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     • josef
     @Cocoron I think the rise of mental illness is due to better acknowledgment rather than actual spreading, the same way that currently more people are declaring to be gay, however there's no reason to believe the proportion of gay people among the general population changed over any period of time.
     
     However this doesn't mean there isn't a pressure to sell what you described as commodities, but it isn't new either, see "modern" advertisement dating back to the 50's.
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