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Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless

On negotiating the false idols of neoliberal self-care

Laurie Penny   July 08, 2016
Joanna Slodownik

Pour scorn elsewhere. / Joanna Slodownik

Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating, healthy living, personal productivity, and “radical self-love”—the insistence that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, we can achieve a meaningful existence by maintaining a positive outlook, following our bliss, and doing a few hamstring stretches as the planet burns. The more frightening the economic outlook and the more floodwaters rise, the more the public conversation is turning toward individual fulfillment as if in a desperate attempt to make us feel like we still have some control over our lives.

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Originally posted by [livejournal.com profile] suntservanda at О, сколько нам открытий чюдных
Согласно неопубликованным данным из Скольково, особо злопамятные клетки запоминают даже тех, у кого не встал.

Пы.Сы.: И в дополнение от отца Федора картинка по теме из ПоцреотизмЪма Нью:
Слабонервным не открывать!!111 )

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