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Tag Archives: Medicalization
Another Reason Young Americans Don’t Revolt Against Being Screwed
By Bruce E. Levine Source: CounterPunch “8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance” was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Health, media, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged addiction, Debt, Dissent. Occupy Movement, Doxxing, Economics, fear, financial crisis, FoMo, Internet, Liberation Psychology, Medicalization, Millenials, psychology, Red Pillers, Revolt, Self-Esteem, Social Justice Warriors, Social Media, Social Security, Sociology, technology, youth
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First Do No Harm
By Emmy Bee Source: Dissident Voice Let me preface what I am about to say by stating that I have the utmost esteem for mainstream medicine’s skill in emergency situations — the do or die surgeries, the dispensing of powerful … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, GMOs, Health, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Alternative Medicine, Big Pharma, DDT, Disease, drugs, FDR, GMOs, Health, healthcare, Medicalization, MMR Vaccine, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Vaccines, Western Medicine
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Breaking the chains: precarity in the Age of Anxiety
By Joseph Todd Source: RoarMag.org In our Age of Anxiety, society assaults us from every possible angle with an avalanche of uncertainty. How do we fight back under conditions of precarity? An Age of Anxiety is upon us, one where … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Labor, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged Anxiety, Commodification, Community, Consumerism, Debt, Dystopia, economic crisis, Economics, Education, Employment, Housing, Labor, Medicalization, Neoliberalism, Precariats, Quantified Self, Revolution, society, Spectacle, surveillance, technology, Work
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Politics as therapy: they want us to be just sick enough not to fight back
By Michael Richmond Source: Transformation On 10 October it is World Mental Health Day. I used to be outgoing, but a descent into crushing depression left me housebound. After Occupy I started asking: how does social environment shape our psychology? … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Economics, Health, Psychology, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, depression, Economics, Foucault, Medicalization, Mental Health, Occupy Movement, Psychiatry, psychology
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