shii410
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the mental health industrial complex basically turns the concept of interpersonal relationships in to a commodity and reduces human connection down to the most superficial, material level possible
supporting your friends when they're depressed was, at one point, seen as something you're reasonably expected to do, and should actually want to do just as part of the nature of the relationship. but in therapy culture, that's considered "unpaid labor" which should be left to "professionals" who address your issues in a purely transactional and artificial environment.
people constantly bitch about how america is a capitalist dystopia or whatever but never bring up how one of the most basic things that makes us 'human', the ability to consciously relate to others and connect with them in an abstract way, is now a massive corporate enterprise and is culturally perceived in the same terms as labor and industry
though I believe this would inevitably happen in any feminized society either way considering that women have this Machiavellian perspective on interpersonal relationships by default (see the feminist concept of "emotional labor", and also just literally anything relating to female psychology and sexuality)
@Atavistic Autist made high IQ threads on this before tbh
supporting your friends when they're depressed was, at one point, seen as something you're reasonably expected to do, and should actually want to do just as part of the nature of the relationship. but in therapy culture, that's considered "unpaid labor" which should be left to "professionals" who address your issues in a purely transactional and artificial environment.
people constantly bitch about how america is a capitalist dystopia or whatever but never bring up how one of the most basic things that makes us 'human', the ability to consciously relate to others and connect with them in an abstract way, is now a massive corporate enterprise and is culturally perceived in the same terms as labor and industry
though I believe this would inevitably happen in any feminized society either way considering that women have this Machiavellian perspective on interpersonal relationships by default (see the feminist concept of "emotional labor", and also just literally anything relating to female psychology and sexuality)
@Atavistic Autist made high IQ threads on this before tbh