4 Human Anxiety in Late-Stage Capitalism

1 The typical modern response to people suffering from anxiety is to prescribe medication.

The word panic has its derivation in reference to Pan, the Greek god of desert and wildness, of the animal body encoded within humans and its attendant animalistic imperatives. To wit, deracinate an animal from its herbal habitat and it will evince, on an instinctual foundation, a combat-or-flight response.

If caged, the unfortunate creature will tempo the confines of its imprisonment, chew and tear at its fur and flesh, grow to be irritable, enervated, languish and even die from the deprivation of the environment it was born to inhabit. A caged animal, even if the unlucky creature endures captivity, is not the entity nature conceived; the dwelling being has been reduced to A thing That Waits For Lunch.

human beings, animals that we're, respond in a similar style. Experiencing anxiety is the various methods our innate animal spirits react to the capitalist cage. Inundate a teenager with the soul-defying criteria of the corporate/patron country, with its overbearing, pre-careerist pressures, its paucity of communal eros, its demands, overt and implicit, to conform to a shallow, manic, nebulously defined yet oppressive societal order, and demand that folks that cannot adapt, a lot much less excel, are “losers” who are fated to turn out to be “basement dwellers” in their dad and mom’ homes or, for people who lack the privilege, be solid into homelessness, then the minds of the younger or vintage alike are apt to be inundated with emotions of angst and dread.

Worse, if teenagers are culturally conditioned to believe stated feelings and responses are solely experienced by using weaklings, parasites, and losers then their struggling may fester to the factor of emotional paralysis and suicidal inclinations.

2No Real Remedies

The trouble of homelessness is the end result of a societal-huge belief problem — the phenomenon is the very brand of the scrambling, twisting, dissociating, and displacing of belief that capitalist propagandists specialise in. Homelessness would be considered a relic of a barbaric beyond if this very simple principle changed into implemented: getting access to everlasting shelter is a human proper and not a privilege.

What kind of a vile, vicious humans would deny that easy proposition? the ones conditioned by way of a lingering Puritan/Calvinist attitude to believe: Punishment for resisting the usurpation of the fleeting hours of 1’s finite life must be intense. If the over-class can now not break out with, as turned into once not unusual exercise in the Puritan/Calvinist lifestyle, public floggings to whip the labor pressure into line, then individuals who will not or cannot comply could be forged onto the bloodless, unforgiving concrete of a soulless cityscape.

It comes down to this, societies that are ridden with substantial wealth inequity, because of the machinations of a rapacious over-class, create the obscenity known as homelessness. moreover, the state of affairs is most effective one of the numerous obscenities inherent to state capitalism. Obscenities that consist of, activities which can be dominating the existing information cycle, e.g., the predations of a lecherous film multi-millionaire, to the sub-cretinous doings and pronouncements of a primary of nation who's a bloated, bloviating, two-legged poisonous waste dump.

3Trump, No Aberration

How is it then, liberals fail to comprehend the reality that the Trump presidency is not an aberration; as an alternative, his ascension to electricity have to be appeared as being a few of the excessive chance variables of past due-degree capitalism and empire constructing? The psychopathic, tangerine-tinged clown Trump is the embodiment of the second one regulation of Thermodynamics, a improvement this is concomitant to over-accelerated empires. as a result he'll maintain to flounce deeper into the quagmire of crash-engendering, financial legerdemain and perpetual conflict.

Empires are demise cults, and demise cults, on a subliminal foundation, long for their own loss of life. paradoxically, the collective mindset of imperium, even because it thrusts across the expanse of the sector, renders itself insular, reduce off from culturally improving novelty, as all the at the same time as, the homeland descends right into a psychical swamp of churning madness.
A draining of the swamp of the collective mind cannot come to bypass, for the swamp and citizenry are one. Withal, the likes of leaders along with Trump upward push from and are made happen by way of the morass of the tradition itself. In a swamp, the gospel of rebirth and redemption is heard inside the tune of humus. New existence rises from its compost.

within the presence of Trump’s debased mind and tombified carcass, one is privy to arias of rot. even as Hillary Clinton’s monotonous pace turned into the dirge of a taxidermist — cold, desiccated of heart, and devoid of existence’s numinous spark — Trump’s voice contains the depraved cacophony of a Célinean idiot’s parade … its trajectory trudging in the direction of the end of empire.

As liberals new BFFL (first-class pal for life) George W. Bush might ask, “Is our liberals getting to know.” In a phrase, no. for instance, the collective psyche of U.S. way of life as been enflamed by the revelations that actresses were coerced into sexual encounters with a film rich person whose energy inside the enterprise turned into best matched, even greater, via his sadistic nature. The body of workers of his enterprise assisted, changed into complicit in, or remained silent approximately his lechery, as did the complete of the movie industry and the amusement press. All as NFL athletes are being threatened with expulsion from the League if they kneel in the course of the countrywide anthem.

4The Great Unspoken

The impact of those excursions on humans changed into frequently profound … the combined factors of the elemental beauty of the rivers and vastness of the town’s structure and scope, clamor, and the dense interweaving of conventional ethnic customs and ad hoc social codes of recent Yorkers often could heighten the visitors’ senses and open them to larger, more complicated awareness of themselves and extant fact … the freeways of the contemporary mind (conditioned to be continuously engaged in manic motion, with one’s thoughts either frenzied by way of an obsession with appearing (in the end futile) maneuvers directed to saving time — or stalled at a frustration inducing standstill) have been replaced via the exigencies of life at avenue degree, i.e., novel situations that had to be apprehended and negotiated.

The opportunities of life regarded extra. The crimped eros of insular suburban idea became loosened earlier than the metropolis’s intricacies and expansiveness. even though: not all, or even a scant few, New Yorkers can maintain the state of being. Few of us can live via Rilke’s solve to “make each second holy.” life, within the city, becomes grotesquely distorted … high rents, inflicted by way of hyper-gentrification, in combination with the deification of achievement and its cult of careerism overwhelm one’s psyche … there is to this point to fall.

Angst (the phrase at the start can be traced to the ancient Greek deity Ananke, the immovable with the aid of prayer and providing complain Goddess of Necessity and the root phrase of tension) clamps down one’s experience of cognizance. Ananke dominates the lives of the non-privileged citizenry at the same time as Narcissus, Trump’s, the Clintons’, et.al. and their economic and cultural elitists’ purchaser God policies the day. The pantheon of possibility has been decimated, a cultural cleaning has been perpetrated, by way of the egoist caprice of the beneficiaries of the overdue capitalist dictatorship of cash.

consequently, we arrive at the primal expertise tacitly conveyed through tension-borne states of fight or flight. due to the truth that capitalism, on each an person and collective basis, drives individuals into madness, all as the machine destroys woodland and discipline, ocean and sea and the soul-scape of all who live below its rapacious dominion, our plight comes all the way down to this: We both struggle and try, by means of and any and all means, to quit the machine — or it'll end us.

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