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The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. This requires a social and political explanation; and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.
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General thread for discussion of Aryavarta and overall Vedic history, culture, philosophy, religion, demographics, and civilizational revival. What should be preserved? What should be restored? What should be created? Share whatever you can Books, Research, Artworks, Maps, Archives, Ideas.
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Starting to learn how to draw today since I've got way too much free time and honestly nothing else to do. One thing that's already intimidating is the digital art softwares. I don't understand any of these programs, and I feel like it'll take me months just to learn how to use them properly before I can even master drawing. Any drawfags got tips for a complete beginner?
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