Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Isn’t it rational to be anxious in a world that’s failing us all?" video.

  1. Unfortunately, Richard I'm not sure the import of your message has really hit home looking at the bottery in the comment section. The message that you are trying to get across is that economic deprivation fosters mental ill health in neoliberal economies. Remove the economic deprivation - which is the result of the misallocation and ineffective and inefficient distribution of resources within neoliberal economies - and societally-wide mental ill health will signifucantly decrease. Humans love stories, but their no substitution for the truth. Myths dominate our thinking and are relentlessly and neoliberalism's biggest myth is that money is wealth, and that those who do not have money, who are poor are to blame for their poverty. This myth is built on another myth - that being wealthy is a sign of virtue or talent. And the people who push this myth are often the asset wealthy, who spend their money buying media outlets to push these lies. The truth is that both cream and sewage float to the top. Luck as inherited asset wealth is the reality, and how deeply embedded this myth is in our culture, is reflected in our obsession with class, and other ways to "divide and rule". There are hard working, talented people who never get asset wealthy, or even enough money to live. I'm thinking of Robert Tressell, the author of the novel "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists." Tressel was an Irish migrant working as a decorator, who wrote his novel at the kitchen table at night. Poverty ensured he never lived to see his novel published, as he died of Tuberculosis, a disease of deprivation, before his daughter got it published. This all happened at the beginning of the 20th century, and yet in the 21st century we're repeating the same myths and the same mistakes as were perpetrated in the early 20th century. And the world is in some ways even more malevolent than the 1910s. We have forgotten the lessons people in this country at that time learned, because the problems they were dealing with, are still being fought with in the 21st century. And in many ways, we are in danger of going backwards. That's what people don't realise, that we've been here before, where the asset wealthy were unperturbed by the loss of the poor and deprived. Qui Bono? Who benefits from that? It may have taken two world wars and a global financial crisis to persuade people to look at things differently, but at least they walked around and examined the elephant in the room, and decided to clean up the growing pile of poop. We're not even really looking. Intergenerational forgetting? Probably, and we're self-harming the fabric of our society as a result. And increasing mental ill health is a symptom of our neglect of the basic realities of running an effective economy. For it to be effective, capital - social and economic - can't be hoarded by a minority, at the detriment of the majority, because it's unsustainable in the long run. That's why we are endangering ourselves. And a those suffering from depression and anxiety are exhibiting a sane response to an insane world, where the winners spend money to gaslight everyone else. Reality can't be ignored, because that way madness lies. I hope we wake up and start resisting the myths and the lies, because it's not only damaging the economy, it's damaging us as people.
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