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Mental health, in fact, is a paradigm case of how capitalist realism operates. Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect).
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Whenever one group has chosen to allow terrible violence to be inflicted on another group, there have been stories and logics that provided the permission for the beneficiaries of the violence either to actively (even gleefully) participate or to actively look away.
Another notable continuity between that time and the present day is the long arc of anti-worker sentiment that stretches from Charles Babbage to, for example, Jeff Bezos and today’s Amazon corporation.
Resisting AI
Dan McQuillan
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