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You’re not anxious because capitalism is a chaos engine. You’re anxious because you need to cut carbs and meditate harder. You’re not lonely because society atomizes you by design. You’re lonely because you haven’t found your tribe. This is not ideology; it’s self-help with delusions of grandeur.
The Roganification of the Male Mystique
Joan Westenberg
If you refuse to let your own suffering lie upon you even for an hour and if you constantly try to prevent and forestall all possible distress way ahead of time; if you experience suffering and displeasure as evil, hateful, worthy of annihilation, and as a defect of existence, then it is clear that [you harbour in your heart] … the religion of comfortableness. How little you know of human happiness, you comfortable … people, for happiness and unhappiness are sisters and even twins that either grow up together or, as in your case, remain small together.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
Society can be destroyed when further growth of mass production renders the milieu hostile, when it extinguishes the free use of the natural abilities of society’s members, when it isolates people from each other and locks them into a man-made shell, when it undermines the texture of community by promoting extreme social polarization and splintering specialization, or when cancerous acceleration enforces social change at a rate that rules out legal, cultural, and political precedents as formal guidelines to present behavior.
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
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