I now hate pretty much everything I used to enjoy and the only things I still enjoy also make me more angry and frustrated. I blame John Stewart.
I now hate pretty much everything I used to enjoy and the only things I still enjoy also make me more angry and frustrated. I blame John Stewart.
This is why I won't go to therapy even when my friends insist. I've gone before and their solution to everything is to just focus inwards, focus on yourself, you don't owe anyone else anything, you're an island and you can make that island happy. It's liberal bullshit. The only time they talk about your relationship with others is in a kind of transactional way where they want to see what you can get out of others (emotionally, not materially). I think psychotherapy is meant to perpetuate liberal hegemony. I don't want to talk about me me me, I'm not depressed because of brain chemicals, I'm depressed because of the state of the fucking world.
Adam Curtis' Century of the Self, a documentary series on the triumph of individualism - presented as a liberal way to distribute power to everybody, while concretely, and paradoxically, driving mass-consumerism - starts from the work of Sigmund Freud. Watch here .
oh nice, I've had my own suspicions that this was the case
I watched it a couple years ago, and I remember it validating my feelings about therapy at the time. I might watch it again.